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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none of modern life is easily reproduced its a huge mass of preconditions millennia of conventions adapted and grown from their original shapes, one supporting another ways of learning that had to be learned and im thinking probably this is not a human-level growth
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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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Many things cannot be transferred by writing! Probably the most important things
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And these too will fail! For now no one will have a human teacher, and this too will be a great change with accompanying loss of the mos maiorum
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