Comment on Can relate.

reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nonsense, I look upon Ozymandias, king of kings’ works and despair daily!

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  • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was literally thinking about this poem moments ago.

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    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s one of the greats.

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  • InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hehe, bad news for the ‘impson’ family!

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• MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s true. I wonder how many ancient Babylonians, Greeks, Chinese, Egyptians, Persians, Romans thought:

  “Surely, this empire will last forever! Look upon our works, ye mighty, and despair!”

  Especially in modern times it’s insanely difficult to imagine the geopolitics shifting drastically, but it’s happened before, it’s happening now. The difference being that the rest of the globe is now much more invested in your shenanigans with your neighbors, but it’s still happening.

  What does one do amidst a regime change?

  I’m glad I’ve never had to seriously consider it until now. …but it unnerves me that I probably need to start.

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  • dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You forgot an important difference between ancient history and now. Now, when the empire falls it has the power to take the biosphere with it.

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• bamfic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Civilizations of a heirarchal centralized type definitely feel like temporary abberations, after reading Graeber and Wengrow

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• affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  how does one consume ancient history? do you eat the source documents?

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  • reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s unrealistic— some of them are etched into stone

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    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You need some papurus dust to sprinkle on those, like a lick-a-stick.

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