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Non-Tech : Kirk's Market Thoughts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kirk © who wrote (26170)	10/8/2025 10:09:57 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26422

Roman history is documented in stone at archaeological sites like the Roman Forum and Palatine Hill, where ruins and inscriptions provide historical context. I've been to these places. There are not pages and pages or even paragraphs and paragraphs of "documentation in stone". There are some words. Nothing on those two sites could be used to produce the paragraph with the detail I linked to. Not even close. Imagine a major US city was frozen today. If humans 1,000 years from now look at it, do you think they would know a single modern day scholar who was renowned for "teaching rhetoric"? Pompeii gives some idea of what life was like 2,000 years ago, but not much. There were rooms and shitters and walkways. OK. The rest is pure speculation. You know, when archaelogists find a new ancient dwelling, they are pumped up because they found ...... a metal arrowhead (or something like that). It means the people used weapons, something like that. Maybe it means these people had metal forgers to make swords, perhaps. What was life like back then? They haven't got a clue, they just found a ..... metal arrowhead. If they excavate a site for 6 years at a cost of a few million $$, and they find an metal arrowhead (unexpectedly!) they have to make up some exciting story about how significant this is, or the next excavation isn't going to get funding (under Trump they're not getting more funds anyways, but you know what I mean). Their professional incentive is to OVERSTATE the importance of discoveries. This rock is very important!!