Hello Everyone

I had a couple of quick thoughts today that I'd like to share:

Our modern society is guilty of creating a horrible injustice to history, we are not leaving anything truly permanent for history to know us by. Our building materials and everyday life objects will not stand up to time or the elements such as have the buildings and objects of the past. A bullet will erode while a stone spearhead will not, a sky scraper will fall, while a pyramid will not. What of our knowledge and language? No rosetta stone will exhist for our language, we have no hyrogliphics that will last one thousand years on a wall tomb. Our knowlede is less and less being stored in books and more on computers, which isn't even reliably permanent in our time right now! I'm not suggesting we go back to stone tablets or buidling with limestone, however, we must find a way to pass our way of life onto the future so that they may learn from both our accomplishments and mistakes. We know how imporant it is to learn from history, through the things left behind by past civilizations we now have been able to get a wonderful and clear understanding of who we are, how dare we deny that to the people of the future.

This is a shallow understanding and dicussion on this but I hope it at least makes you think, wherther you agree with me or not.

Another thought, there is a lot of talk about how a civilization or society came to an end. However, do societies ever really end? They may at times end politically but knowledge and lessons leanred get passed on through thousands of years, and is that not part of a society? How are we now to pass on our knowledge to future civilizations? A society never ends, but simply gets intergrated into a different version of that society, and this includes a society which has invaded the other.

- a history student