fuck just realized intellectual life in the west changed forever when the standard use of latin was abandoned until that point everyone spoke the same language, wrote in the same language, and shared a common set of sources and guiding works
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Yes. The fact that today’s reactionaries so often swear by nationalism cracks me up.
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I didn't care til you said "the memes"




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what do you think society even is
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Like genes in the wild, memes within culture are discarded with abandon as the environment changes. Sometimes there are extinction events.
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All their structures were themselves founded on ruins Embrace destruction
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I prefer to think of them as trees in soil made of older trees.
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(Like half the memes in classical Latin assumed the reader was well versed in ancient Greek tho)
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English has to have a higher adoption rate than Latin, I'm confused
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Supposedly ancient Rome was covered with penis graffiti.
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