I love how humans have literally not changed throughout history like the graffiti from Pompeii has people from hundreds of years ago writing stuff like “Marcus is gay” “I fucked a girl here” “Julius your mum wishes she was with me” and leonardo da vinci’s assistants drew dicks in their notebooks just for the banter and mozart created a piece called “kiss my ass” so when people wish for ‘today’s generation’ to be like ‘how people used to’ then we’re already there buddy we’ve always been
The Hagia Sophia has inscriptions that were considered sacred for centuries until they were deciphered in the 70s to be Nordic runes saying “Halfdan wrote this”
my old english prof told us that theres a cave in Scandinavia where a viking gratified some runes like 14 feet up on the wall and when they finally reached it all it translated into was “this is very high”
Ancient Shitposting
Now on the History Channel
‘People have literally just always been people’ is genuinely my favorite fact about the world
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 BC – 43 BC
thesis: the crucible by arthur miller is a great play and i’m glad that kids learn about it in schools.
antithesis: the most annoying time of year is when high schools teach kids about the crucible and every single argument on tumblr turns into half baked salem witch trials comparisons. even like, voltron shipping discourse.
synthesis: tumblr is an accessible, if not especially useful or constructive, outlet for young people to exercise critical thinking, albeit in the limited capacity that critical thinking is taught in public schools. also you get a lot less bugged by tumblr arguments once it is revealed that everyone who argues about things on tumblr is actually sixteen years old.
