mmodern life is madness think about this a lot when high or rather its only manifest then, sober things blur and cant be perceived with ground-level clarity but seriously bananas thinking about forest primeval right now an ancient temperate hardwood Wald
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one way to think about it every child starts a barbarian the process of making it human is acculturation, deploying a cultural package developed over History in a way civilization is just that bundle it has material components too yes, hammers that make tools that make robots
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but the Bundle of acculturation is key I was thinking about how a Wold-dweller would be totally alienated today possibly nothing would make sense their simple package is the root of ours maybe but we're living in the branches
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and the bundle is path dependent but in great flux and components can be lost easily by saeculum if a thing is not passed down over two generations it might just be lost languages say but subtle things too God or courage or bigotry or identity or endurance
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the british forgot how to cure scurvy this case is instructive
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I don't think Gibbon was silly to place blame for the second greatest Fall on Rome's loss of virtue the Romans of the Empire were very clearly not the Romans of the high Republic there had been too many fat saecula, maybe Old things forgotten and then their memory forgotten
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Here you see a good point! But doubly so or more when you consider that the most important things--experiences, moods, heart-felt zeitgeists, trials, morals--are not (well) transmitted by writing https://twitter.com/josephtoretti/status/1054283331985010689?s=19 …
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