The Great Hall of Mankind

The memory of mankind is fickle, fragmented, and easy to manipulate. Our time is one of immense contradiction. We are more able to record history, to remember. The ability to put pen to paper is more accessible at any other time in human history. The internet offers another valuable form of remembering, but we as men understand and see less than our ancestors. It takes only the reading of old books and letters to see just how much more our ancestors understood. Contrast these with our own writing. You can draw conclusions both good and bad.

On one hand, sentence length decreases the closer you get to our time. Does this mean we have gotten better at communicating our point? Does it mean our ancestors had a better handle at conveying their ideas in the written word? You have, of course, the introduction of new technology, new ways of communicating ideas and remembering history. These new technologies supplanted the old ways our ancestors learned from prior generations. The lessons learned from one generation to the next were vital to remember and pass on. This was remembered through tradition and implemented through culture and religion.

The emergence of all these new ways to remember and communicate have made our parents and grandparents forget tradition or CHOOSE not to pass those on to their children. Religions lost the power of men they once had. Those faiths have had their authority and authenticity destroyed in the mainstream flow of information. As perverse as modern religions have become, it is foolish to believe we have moved past the need for religion. On the contrary, it is still vital to our very survival. The real religion of our time is in no text, it’s in the very culture of our peoples. Even those who despise our raise follow its creed. This religion’s mores are enforced through these new ways of communication.

With this new means of controlling the race, our people will lose grasp of what it means to be human. What it means to exist in nature. Those vital aspects of being human get lost. In many cases, the necessary traits required for the survival of the race don’t only get forgotten, they become maligned. The race learns to despise the instincts and traditions necessary for survival. In some ways, maybe these traditions, these ancestral memories, seem unnecessary because of our technological advancement. But this can only be an extreme form of arrogance.