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Mar 28, 2023 12:46 PM
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HypnagogicHallucinations
You mean since the Big Bang? Or just since cheese?
RadicalLiberal
And what has survived is mostly lies: https://medium.com/leftovers-again/our-beliefs-are-lies-98037bd24b18
charliem
kinda sad
keizo4
90% of stats are made up
PrincessWendyB
Do NOT look up how RARE the conditions for creating fossils are! Or the drought in Africa that eroded away the layers around our emergance!
Skumbo
I'm fairly certain a large portion of history was, Humans migrating to a new place, hunted and gathered for survival.
istry555
Much more than 90% seeing as writing is only about 5,500 years old and homo sapiens emerged over 300,000 years ago.
Shelest
pre-writing, the history was mostly recorded with Sony Video8 camcorders.
Easykehl
Don’t worry, history repeats itself so we’ll just document it on the next cycle through.
thricebakedxyz
You mean like Bell Bottom jeans?
Kbantar
Our species is over 200,000 years old. More like 99%+, especially when knowing that few recorded daily activities by the commoners.
EleganceIsDead
Yes but the "important" history i.e. Scientific & Tech History, only happened in the last 200+ yrs. Millennia of Huntin/Gatherin kinda dull.
Manakini
Meh. Most of it was probably sheep watching and stabbing people.
Fuzzysteve
Herodotus is over there laughing :D
Syko73
..And most of the rest that was written down was bullshit
quzar
I'll be 'that guy', but if it was unrecorded, it wasn't history. History is specifically what has been recorded.
theDogter
I cry for what we lost in the americas alone
StrangePaegan
A whole hemisphere's worth of cultures.
theDogter
Two entire continents! Hundreds of cultures, to be lumped together as Native American. I think there should be a serious push to rename South America, and to re-identify the cultures as they were named. We recognize 4-5 cultures in Britain alone and yet Indian covers all brownish people.
LooseyGooseyBrett
99.99999% of all humans are forgotten about
WoofBastard
If any of that history is as stupid as what's happening in the present day, good riddance to bad rubbish.
APassingPlasticBag
Don’t forget all the scientific advancements/theories and people that were burnt because humans are stupid superstitious creatures
TallulahBumfluff
Thoughts like this absolutely fascinate me... And hurt my head.
maststick
Remember that huge amounts of history were destroyed by various types of Christianity because they didn’t fit with god propaganda
BeenisWeenis
I am sure most of it was horrific shit.
dingoflickums
Don't worry, we're recording as much as possible right now, 99.9% of which will not exist 1000 years from now.
Shelest
historians say that even today with all the Internet resources we aren't approaching the glory of the lost Assyrian furry vore porn archives
trippingthelightfantastic
And what we can still lose...
420supercoolusername69
“over-reliance on rational argument”
LumpPump
and i call bullshit on that vanity part, humans will never stop finding ways to sexualize each otehr lol
Easykehl
Fuck man, 90%? I’m not even photographing like 98% of my meals.
PimpinKen
As long as you are eating out there are receipts, so there is record. And I mean purchasing a meal outside of your domicile, not, you know..
HenryGant
ALLCAPSROCK
I'm trending at 100% not photographing my meals!
manhands
Don’t worry, it’s still being recorded. *ominous organ chord*
imgurj17
I haven’t photographed many of my poos lately. I think I need to take good long hard look at myself
PimpinKen
I wonder if I could get public funding for a poo image repository. This is important to catalogue and organize for society
imgurj17
Rate my poo.com?
CanThinkOfUsername
Fun fact, the large part of the history is also a fabrication.
ImNotStalkingYouBTWYoureOutOfMilk
about 95% of it. Most records that do exist are propaganda by the victors, and the rest is speculation by historians
rakas90
I live on Vancouver Island and I think constantly about how mamy indigenous people lived here and probably had local spots that are gone.
rakas90
So many places around the world have generational paths and foods they'd gather and recipes they'd honed. But here, they're mostly dead.
rakas90
Disease from the colonizers, then active extermination and residential schools decimated any generational knowledge.
rakas90
It makes me sad. We could be experiencing multi-thousand year cultures, but our ancestors needed beaver pelts instead.
Zahnradfee
That's what breaks my heart too. So much beauty and knowledge is lost, because some asshole needed to establish dominance.
ProcrastinatingWork
To buy whiskey
pigeonwiggle
what's sad is the optimism they'd had. "over here will be a great view for when i join the ancestors" -- it's a fishplant now.
Dagordae
90%? Yeah, you might want to check those numbers. Humanity first appeared around 200k years ago. The first writing, at all, is around 6k
Dagordae
Years ago. Recorded history at all is around 3% of all human history. And of that 3% we are missing basically all of it. 90%? That’s if you
Frederf
History is writing it down. Pre-history is prior to written record.
Dagordae
Are only checking the last thousand years or so.
LordVulpix
The thing is 90% of history is just some person just having a normal boring day out in the fields, maybe they saw a pretty bird that day.
Zahnradfee
Yes, but I want to know what kinds of birds Neanderthals found pretty and if they even had and opinion on that.
nicky512
I think you’re confusing history for social media, which sadly, will now be recorded as our history. “Memes in history” class someday.
LordVulpix
No I'm regarding all humans. Many humans had simple lives in simple times.
GuitarBobMonterey
..or a burning bush.
countbassy
I heard that he fought for his meals
Navrodel
NAIL! I saw a bird. It was pretty. Kick its ass!
xeilua
I was looking for this comment
gooftroop
Birds are fucking sweet.
sQuimby
Yeah, but what did it look like
Leonon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_parakeet
sQuimby
Damnit...
VonZinzer
WHAT DID IT LOOK LIKE!?!
PoorSucker
It was pretty.
Zreen
write that down!
Zahnradfee
Possibly like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/European_bee_eater.jpg
jj86
90% is a little bit low.
ruint
humanity is 300k yrs old, or about 10-15k genrations. recorded history is 5k years old, 250-330 generations. the bible is 100-150 mums ago.
ruint
we remember about 2%, maybe half that with certainty. if we remembered 10% we would have records of other human species.
Frederf
It's too high. History is the act of writing it down. If it wasn't written down it wasn't history. 100% of all history was recorded.
istry555
No, although "prehistory" is a term used specifically for pre-writing, the term "history" as a term for simply past events is older.
Frederf
depends layperson vs technical
istry555
Not really, history meaning past events is both the lay and technical meaning. Prehistory is an additional term invented later to specify...
istry555
prewritten history, but it doesn't change the meaning of the term history. People just wrongly infer because prehistory means prewriting...
jj86
Weird take that no historian would agree with. Documented history includes writings but also verbal, drawn, built, objects, detritus, dna...
Frederf
That archeology
jj86
Jeez bro, you need better education. Archeology is history. DNA is history.
Frederf
Firetrucks are history. Everything is history! Everything is anything!
EdelwoodHikes
Do not despair, but all will be lost forever, eventually.
CleverGroom
Yeah, 90% is a rookie number. We gotta get that number up.
BoNolHetAhrkDir
"But"?
mypylon
I am so happy Humanity will die off one day.
Lanhdanan
I got to enjoy the age of mankind where the computer chip is created, but then I also think I missed out completely on dinosaurs
smashpro1
But we get dank memes.
EdelwoodHikes
Dinosaurs aren't completely gone yet, they've just changed a bit.
jekath
More than 75% of humanity has never seen a live dinosaur, according to sources I made up.
squirrelgirl86
You missed the dinosaurs, but you share the planet with the largest animal that's ever lived! How cool is that?
jrntn
Hey, that's my mother you're talking about there!
HitlersRupturedColon
Fungus?
squirrelgirl86
Fungi are not a part of the animal kingdom. I was referring to the blue whale.
LongCommentChainAppreciator
And @OP 's mom ofcourse
Theory89
*quickly Google checks* huh, he is correct. I really thought it would be a megaladon or something. They have a skeleton at the Natural...
TalkingSnake
The library of Alexandria is a gaping void in humanity.
IupvoteAussies
The burning of essentially every Mayan book by Spanish missionaries who tortured the locations out of the locals also gets to me
leetasmeat
Gaping. Void.
TheAnswerWasAlwaysMoreLube
Wishbone10
The library of persepolis also agrees
Tronlegacy
I'd say the Sack of Byzantine, by the crusaders is up there too. So many artifacts lost.
varyael
Thankfully, pretty much all texts there were copies and so original manuscripts released after copying weren't destroyed
KafkasKarma
Who knows...we don't know what manuscripts were in there
emptyhat
People with the current popular version of the Alexandria myth, apparently.
urrugtheorc
They would copy books and manuscripts, yes, but it was the copies that were returned and the originals kept for the library.
urrugtheorc
They believed that the older the copy, the less it had been copied, and so the fewer errors there would be.
varyael
That period was far far before the fire. By the time that happened, they'd sold/given/loaned any real valuables. It was destitute really
Dagordae
No it isn’t. It was, however, an excellent propaganda tool. The Library was defunct long before it burned, it’s works copied and transferred
Dagordae
To libraries still worth a damn. But some leader figured he could bank on it’s prior reputation to paint his current enemy as savage
Gatorjon
Who was the leader and who was the enemy? I thought the it was destroyed by an accidental fire.
Dagordae
Barbarians. And, well, it worked. Ironically enough, the void of information created is in this case mythology replacing history.
Gatorjon
I read somewhere that it actually wasn't that bad for some reason. Can't remember why though.
HtNrN
probably copys of every manuscript in some cloister
Dagordae
It had long fallen into disrepair. Replaced by other libraries, it was a literal rotten shell of what it was at it’s height. The irony of
Fistouille
Dagordae
Lamenting lost history by citing propaganda and mythology pretty much sums up internet crusaders.
LumpPump
easiest human flaw to exploit, their gullible childhoods, make sure the lies start coming young & bathed in the guise of "truthful history"
LumpPump
downside is much of that propaganda was spouted to people by teachers they trusted growingup so many never think it necessary to look deeper
LumpPump
that way the rest of ya digging up the real truth just look like wack job conspiracy theorist when ya find something they didnt want known