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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2/ their world. It works for narrative purposes, but it seems false to me. Consider amount of time in our world that normal people spend in a given day arguing about 5/10/20 year old culture war stuff, vs paying attention to the deep history of Byzantium / Rome / Greece / Ur
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3/ In the real Seveneves world people would watch a movie or TV show once a year that was set back in Ye Olden Times when Merlin made the first telephone, or Abraham Lincoln landed on the moon. ...but aside from that, they'd ignore their deep history.
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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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