1/ I continue to read the Odyssey ...and it reminds me of one part of Neal Stephenson's Seveneves that didn't make sense to me: in the "then 5000 years later..." chapter, there are multiple scenes where people are watching The Saga, or whatever it was called, of the birth of >
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Deep history is a niche fandom. In that world, people *like Neal Stephenson* would argue about what happened 5000 years ago.
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Then again, some people get deep history every week, at church, and the world of future Seveneves is intended to be a healthier culture than what we have.
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Counterpoint: my 12-year-olds are studying Gilgamesh in school... ...for the second time
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sure, I don't doubt that people would be familiar with it; just that they would be PREOCCUPIED with ti
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yeah that would be weird, like ritually reenacting the last meal eaten by a culture's saviour figure on a weekly basis weird
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Disagree. 1. Their deep history happened in the video era; they have sticky images of it. 2. IIRC the period that chapter was set in was lead-up to a probable war between alliances; makes sense people would watch old myths then.
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3. Constrained society with genetic enhancements to be detail-oriented. Yeah, this is kind of a wank, but also tracks for a far-future society with those pressures.
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Part of the premise is that the entire species is actively engaged in a deep time project of reterraforming. Makes sense that this would change their rel'n to looking backward as well. Plus they have durable & accurate referents
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