| ▲ | jareklupinski a day ago |
| its the ability to pass down stories which made us the ?best? species editing seems to be an emergent property :P |
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| ▲ | skinfaxi a day ago | parent [-] |
| One very powerful quality of oral tradition is the malleability of the narrative which is lost when things are committed to the written word. |
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| ▲ | cowlevel 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. | | |
| ▲ | skinfaxi 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Do you think we don't live in the world you describe? We are rewriting history constantly. You can always paper over artifacts with new ones. |
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