I think I read somewhere that there are accounts of people complaining that learning to write would reduce students ability to memorize things. It’s up there with old timey accounts of people complaining how the kids act these days and all the penises drawn on the walls of Pompeii on my list of ways humans hadn’t fundamentally changed in the past 100,000 years. Other examples include:

• the amount of really freaky porn that’s in the Bible

• some graffiti that was found in the rafters of an old Norse building that says something to the effect of “Olaf was here.”

• Horrifyingly dangerous Historical beauty trends