[kakaorka]

It’s always fascinating to see how innovative ancient Egypt was. This makes me identify with them as normal people that share the same feelings with us. They dreamt like us and imagined stuff like us. I wish I could go back in time and live there for a while.

[mrspeaker]

It's hard to imagine that we aren't somehow "more evolved" than people in the past, but then you see something like the wall graffiti in Pompeii and realize that even our most evolved trait of shit-posting was well established thousands of years ago! [https://kashgar.com.au/blogs/history/the-bawdy-graffiti-of-p...]

[fit2rule]

That's an interesting phenomenon - assuming that a modern trait is derived from the modern era, until one leaves the modern era with sufficient interest to discover the same trait in earlier cultures.

I've been quite hooked on the "Evidence of Ancient Civilisations and Advanced Technology" series of youtube videos that are there for the watching - mostly because it truly is interesting to think about. We still can't produce buildings as advanced as some of the ancient examples out there in the jungles - we just don't have the technology to do the things to stone that the ancients did. So, there's something else at factor here - the deleterious effects of civilisation.

At some point, we lose the edge. I blame shitposters.