Secondly, he is talking about the brazen ignorance of people who pronounce on things they can know nothing of. So the scientists of his day would find a few bones or a few drawings and say, "These people wore no clothes' or 'these people worshiped the sun god' or somesuch.
I understand that, Von - that’s why the ruling on the field stands as called. It’s based - aka I enjoy the subtle humor at play.
We’ve become almost exclusively a consumer -driven society. It’s brand names that drive us. So this made me realize that future generations won’t give a damn about brand names (if they still understand 2024 English). All they’ll know is that we built big-ass factories to achieve max consumption of whatever’s.
So what you’re saying is that some far distant generation will know that we built factories, but they won’t know what the factories built?
Based.
First of all, it wasn't me, but GK Chesterton.
Secondly, he is talking about the brazen ignorance of people who pronounce on things they can know nothing of. So the scientists of his day would find a few bones or a few drawings and say, "These people wore no clothes' or 'these people worshiped the sun god' or somesuch.
I understand that, Von - that’s why the ruling on the field stands as called. It’s based - aka I enjoy the subtle humor at play.
We’ve become almost exclusively a consumer -driven society. It’s brand names that drive us. So this made me realize that future generations won’t give a damn about brand names (if they still understand 2024 English). All they’ll know is that we built big-ass factories to achieve max consumption of whatever’s.
And THAT, Von, is based AF.
Don’t epiphany shame me, bro.
I'm so old I don't understand 'based' or 'epiphany shamed'... but I'm glad you liked the quote.
I’m glad I didn’t say “Don’t TIL shame me.” (‘Today I Learned’) 😆
I liked the article.
>>Every generation is unique. Gen Z is no different.
The linguist and logician in me find this quote very, very funny. Did you do it on purpose?
I did. Thank you for noticing!