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Depending on how well digital records are preserved I think future people might run into the opposite problem, so much information that there is absolutely no mystery about what people thought and believed.

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Even with all the information at our fingertips, I still don't know what a person dreams of, hopes for, cries about, longs for, and ultimately, who the person really, truly, is, because us humans are all too good at sharing everything, but the truth of our humanity, the things that make us vulnerable, so we invent a shallow shell of a personality over the years to protect ourselves and thus we put out there only that we think is acceptable to put out there all while remaining in solitude with our actual self. I wish it would be different.

and on the inside of that shell, we're all pretty much the same...

Looking at Roman graffiti from 2000 years ago does pretty much confirm this.

Cocks. Lots of cocks.

(_))===D

The only thing that's changed is the medium they are written in/on.

We're basically still living in the cultural mileu formed in Rome, though. I would expect to have much more cultural connection to someone in Rome in 0AD than someone in the Amazon in the 14th century.

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