<"It's one of the major, major tragedies around the world. We have basically lost most of the ancient cities of Sumer," said Chicago-based professor McGuire Gibson, referring to one of man's earliest civilisations which dates back to around 3,000 BC.>
I guess I'm a philistine, but I couldn't care less. I wonder who really cares. There are umpty billion people who have lived over thousands of years. I'm sure the Sumers were nice enough, just as most people are, but they had their day. If they've all gone, maybe it's a good place to build a motorway or international airport.
If a lot of people care about Sumer, I suppose Google will give more hits for Sumer than, say, Monica Lewinsky or Tiger Woods. I'll ask. 270,000 for Sumer and 1,680,000 for "Tiger Woods". 188,000 for "Monica Lewinsky". Tungsten gets 2,810,000. Microsoft gets a whopping 102,000,000. QUALCOMM 1,060,000.
So I don't think many people care much about the Sumerians. It's a Microsoft culture these days. No ugly clay pottery for We the Sheeple!
"Major, major tragedies around the world..." he should get a grip and get real. It's a trivial issue around the world.
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PS God got 56,800,000 so I guess that makes Microsoft more popular than God. How about the Beatles? Only 5,060,000. Jesus 22,300,000 which means John Lennon's old claim that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus has gone the way of Nietzsche's, 1,250,000 hits, assertion that God is dead, along with Nietzsche, John Lennon and George Harrison. Hmmm, I see that Nietzsche is usually misunderstood age-of-the-sage.org being quoted out of context. |
