I love reading ancient cuneiform tablets. Classics such as "Fuck you, this copper sucks." (Ea Nasir), "I should get more new clothes, my dad's employee gets new clothes twice a month and it's embarrassing.", and of course "The sesame harvest will die — let nobody say I did not warn you!", which is absolutely a set up for "Per my last clay tablet.".

Social media & email may be
part of the problem. But if we're still like this when we have to carve our petty bullshit into clay then it's clear that we're the problem. It's us.

@tilde this hit me hard on my trip to Greece. Went to some museums with a local friend. Amazing thing about ancient Greek is the modern people can still read it. Anyway, there were some really old tablets and parchment and my fiend translated them for me. Just the most mundane and boring shit. Joe owes Jane 3 bushels of wheat, etc etc.

Kinda a let down.

@Fingel @tilde I find it nice to have a glimpse of how mundane life was like at that time. Time travel !