And let's not think about prehistory

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And let's not think about prehistory

Context: While the 90% figure is made-up, the premise is true in that most of human history has gone unrecorded. History is considered to have begun with the start of proto-writing (earliest being the Jiahu symbols in China circa 6600 BCE) to writing (3200 BCE), and thus the advent of recorded history.

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Worse still, how much of recorded history was subsequently lost?

Everything from the Library of Alexandria to lost episodes of Doctor Who. So much of what little WAS recorded is also gone.

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Or is still in the ground. Less than 1% of all clay tablets have been recovered around the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians. There’s an enormous amount of information that’s still sitting there untouched due to politics, extremists, or lack of funding.

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So it’s more like 99.9%?

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Realistically, yeah most likely. Our species has been around for so long, and so little was ever recorded down.

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life stories of people like you and me will never be told

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you’re telling it right now

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If we could ever figure out FTL and create super-telescopes, I want them to point it at earth from 200,000 light years away and hit record.

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The Akashic record is woo-woo nonsense, but FUCK it would be nice if such a thing was real.

Nothing any person put effort into deserves to be lost forever.

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When to use a comma, lost forever. RIP.

Inb4 you pretend it’s not your meme

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