Re:Ur
by jackcosgrove on Saturday November 12, 2022 @06:04PM
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> Just like we have almost no idea about the pop culture or songs of people living in, say, the area of Berlin in the year 1022 was.
We can listen to the music of Hildegard of Bingen, who lived a little after that time in another part of Germany. It's not folk music, sure, but that's still pretty cool.
Re:Ur
by johnofthesea on Saturday November 12, 2022 @06:56PM
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> 1022
This seems to be like end of Ottonian Renaissance. So maybe someone like Hermann of Reichenau?
Re:Ur
by tsimionescu on Sunday November 13, 2022 @04:51AM
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It's OK to say "being remembered doesn't matter", I was only pointing out that the alternatives are "being remembered" or "being forgotten" - and both are fine. There is no third option, though, "not vanishing".
Our civilization may well continue and prosper for a thousand years more, but unless we care about being remembered, they will have no idea what Pink Floyd, or Harry Potter, or A Hundred Years of Solitude, or an iPhone, or Linux, or anything else you consider important of our time were/was. Just like we have almost no idea about the pop culture or songs of people living in, say, the area of Berlin in the year 1022 was.