Thank God We Didn’t Have Written Language Back When I Was A Teenager

[Thesauron]

“I tell ya, times sure have changed since I was a boy. Nowadays in our fast-paced Copper Age civilization, people are weaving new textiles, smelting new metals, and finding all kinds of new, exciting ways to make pots. They’re also using new symbolic inscriptions to communicate with each other, and it’s this technology that worries me a bit. Today’s young people will have a permanent record of things they do chiseled out in words for anyone to read.”

 

Full text at the Onion.

 

https://www.theonion.com/thank-god-we-didn-t-have-written-language-back-when-i-w-1834474884

[carlos]

"I recently turned 23, and perhaps I’m getting nostalgic in my middle age"

[Thesauron]

“It’s sad to watch as children begin reading and writing at younger and younger ages. My heart sank the other day when I saw a toddler gaping at cuneiform etchings. But like it or not, written language is here to stay. My own children use it now, and the advice I offer them is simple: Unless you’re comfortable having something stay out there forever where people can read it, don’t carve it into stone.

They roll their eyes at me the way I did at my own father when he used to tell me that staring at all those cave paintings was rotting my brain.”