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FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
TBF, there are a lot more things we need to learn and memorize today than back then. The odyssey could literally be like one of two things of media or entertainment in a persons life back then.
TBF, there are a lot more things we need to learn and memorize today than back then.
I sincerely doubt this. They didn’t have easy ways to take notes, they had to memorize everything. Day-to-day living was more complex then, not less.
That meme of pushing one thing into your head and losing another is not real. The more we exercise our memory, the better it gets.
How many phone numbers do you have memorized?
The entire field of chemistry, most of mathematics, the majority of history, etc didn’t exist yet. Depending on the region anatomy and physiology could be illegal. We didn’t have to know traffic laws, the vast majority didn’t need to know how to read and write. There were probably like 20 animals and insects total that an average person had ever even heard of.
Phone numbers? Only 8, but I have friends who could recite the entire story of the TV show Big Bang Theory start to finish.
TBH if you told me your name and shook my hand I probably wouldn’t remember it tomorrow because I have other priorities on my mind. Finite memory allocation memes aside it’s more of an issue of what we consider important in a more complicated and ever changing world.
Never mind the fact that lorekeeper was an actual job back then - so you’d have people who’s entire livelihood/societal role was remembering these stories.