Do you think that there may be random internet posts from today that in the future may be seen on the same level as the writings of Plato or other great philosophers?
Maybe it's even already happened and I'm simply not aware of it.
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In the time of Plato, only the most educated could read and write. So if you could do both, I think your odds of being remembered had almost as much to do with writing good quality as it did with being lucky enough for your writing to survive centuries.
As for us...it will happen but only very rarely.
That's such a good point I've never really thought about. đ¤ Actually kind of a trip to try and imagine a world where simply knowing how to read written text was akin to sorcery.
Hey, that makes you a sorcerer, just in the wrong century.
There was oral history too though.