I just want to be a fly on the wall if human civilization survives another thousand years – I want to be there to hear some archaeologists talk about discovering meme culture and what a groundbreaking find it is. They’ll wonder why we lived how we live. I bet a lot of people today wonder that same thing. They’ll spend countless hours pondering over the significance of the most insipid, stupid, pointless memes and what relevance they had to our culture. Whether we worshiped memes, or were suffering from lead poisoning.
One day, an archaeologist will discover Gangnam Style and spend years writing a thesis about the meaning of it. Maybe they’ll call it a courtship ritual. They’ll find dirty pics and suggest there was a mystery cult revolving around phallic objects. I wonder who they’ll say was the high priest of the Gangnam Style Cult. Probably that dancing squirrel. He was cute enough for the job, at least.
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I’ve thought this for years. I don’t wish I was a fly, though; I don’t know what i’d want. But I love the idea of a species far more advanced that we are believing that billions of people once worshipped a depressed frog simultaneously, and I want to read their equivalent of historical textbooks explaining the story lol
You might enjoy Motel of the Mysteries, David Macaulay. It’s an older story, but human stupidity never goes out of date.
I believe it will be recorded very well, and the people that will be listening to it will be colder more logical. we will definitely be lead by machines they will know everything and calculate everything, at the paste we are going technology it will be a lot less than a thousand years, in a thousand years human beings will be completely OBSOLETE! Although we can’t imagine this at the moment it will come to past, you can not stop technology! we will be like the dinosaurs are today a memory, like Jurassic park they will be able to bring them back but why? civilization as we know it will vanish. we are just a part of the evolution process. on one had we are lucky to live as we do today although at this time it is more than the beginning of the end, the end around the corner.