how far does cultural memory reach
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is twitter broadening or narrowing your general sense of your existence in history
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generally is a broader sense of cultural historical existence better or worse
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when you think about the Arc(s) of History and the diversity of ways humans have lived and thought and the circumstances they have produced and endured do you find yourself more or less stressed out by contemporary Events
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if you answered less stressed to the previous why are you on twitter instead of reading Suetonius or some shit
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i bet old people often have a comparative advantage in long term thinking because they have gnosis of more weird ways of existing and every time a generation dies we lose access to the lived memory of strange past times this is to be mourned alongside the individuals imo
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Google Books Ngrams is my favorite way to verify this. Nobody knows what a gooseberry is anymore.https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?corpus=26&smoothing=3&content=gooseberries%2C+strawberries%2Cblackberries%2Craspberries&year_end=2019&year_start=1700&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cgooseberries%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cstrawberries%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cblackberries%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Craspberries%3B%2Cc0 …
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Had to Google the translation but I grew up with the good old "Stachelbeere". But yeah it vanished over the years and I rarely see it anymore. Miss the taste.
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