we'd keep the curiosities around, like so much Ea Nasir Sells Shit Copper. we have room for like 5-10 of those per century. not like 8 billion. much of life is mundane.
we'd keep the curiosities around, like so much Ea Nasir Sells Shit Copper. we have room for like 5-10 of those per century. not like 8 billion. much of life is mundane.
> much of life is mundane.
The things that make (or fail to make) life mundane at some point in history are themselves subjects of significant academic interest.
(And of course we have no way to tell what things are "curiosities" or not. Preservation can be seen as a way to minimize survivorship bias.)
Yes, at the same time we'd be excited about more mundane sources from history. The legends about the mighty are interesting, but what do we actually know about every day love from people a thousand years ago? Very little. Most things are speculation based on objects (tools etc.), on structure of buildings and so on. If we go back just few hundred years there is (using European perspective) a somewhat interesting source in court cases from legal conflicts between "average" people, but in older times more or less all written material is on the powerful, be it worldly or religious power, which often describes the rulers in an extra positive way (from their perspective) and their opponents extra weak.
Having more average sources certainly helps and we now aren't good judges on what will be relevant in future. We can only try to keep some of everything.
Today’s mundane is tomorrow’s fascination
We also have rooms full of footprints. In a thousand years, your mundane is the fascination of the world.
Imagine being judged 1000s of year later by some Yelp reviews like poor Nasir.