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Futurekind Faux-Pas

Fri Jul 17, 2009, 1:23 AM
Just had a curious thought while I was glancing at the DA front page a minute ago -- Cultures are remembered by the art they leave behind. Three thousand years from now, suppose an archeologist uncovers the stuff we're producing now. They'll see our furries, and our superheroes, and our piles and piles of homoerotic art. In some cases they'll find combinations of all the above. They'll see our fan-arts of videogame characters. They'll see our Tolkein fantasies and our Shirow sci-fi's. But in three thousand years, with the map rewritten a dozen times over and all pop-culture context long forgotten, what will they make of all these things?

Will we be known as worshippers of the Nintendo Pantheon, praying for the Hero of Time to come again to save us from our tribulations? Will we have harbored spirit-animal identities? Will we have been the great, forgotten culture that raised glittering skyscrapers, communed with alien life, and mastered space-travel and the creation of artificial humans? Will we be the next Ancient Romans and be reknowned for our jaw-droppingly bizarre sexual practices? Will the Silmarillion be a holy text?

Me, I'm banking on a bright future for those perplexed archeologists learning anew how their ancestors wore spandex to channel aspects of The Super Man.

In other news, Photoshop is sitting idle with a neglected landscape painting I'm supposed to working on instead of typing this.

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=MoeGoof Jul 17, 2009, 1:26:03 AM
Now THIS is a journal to read and appreciate. I should be sleeping instead of reading it. But my body clock is all messed up now. Damnit.

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~reidavidson Jul 17, 2009, 4:38:45 AM
Furries - Worshipped various animal gods, though it seemed no one set was the predominant case of worship, rather a person was invited to invent their own gods. Animal god worshipping seemed to be persecuted by others of varying religion.

Super heroes - They seemed to have many legends about strong, valiant men, strong in mind and body, rescueing those weaker than them.

Homoerotic - Homosexuality seemed very acceptable amongst these people and many of their artworks depicted various kinds of relationships as well as depicting positions.


I just wonder what they'll make of the inflation art.

Archeologist: "Well I've been studying these samples and my conclusion is... whoever drew these be fucked up in the head."

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~emerald-moonlight Jul 17, 2009, 6:36:02 AM
Lol, this journal made my day. ^_^ If only we could fave journals. D:

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*Agent-Sarah Jul 17, 2009, 12:56:35 PM
:lol: That is going to be a weird list of stuff they'll put in their research papers when they find that.

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~neef Jul 19, 2009, 12:24:35 PM
I've thought about this too, but with movies. Cloverfield got me thinking... if this got discovered after the ice age or two would it be seen as something that really happened? Would they think there was a zombie virus outbreak if they found Diary of the Dead?
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~izzy890 Jul 20, 2009, 11:20:50 AM
the wheels never stop turning do they Beav?

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~izzy890 Jul 20, 2009, 11:21:44 AM
the wheels never stop turning do they Beav?

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Crackers Don't Matter!
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~chrisbeaver Jul 21, 2009, 9:37:04 PM
The wheels may keep turning, but they're still damn rickety :\

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~chrisbeaver Jul 21, 2009, 9:44:41 PM
Dude, with stuff like that we'd make for the coolest world-history program they could hope for.

"And then, at the height of the American Empire's power, its East Coast got flattened by a giant monster-thing that came out of nowhere and disappeared just as quickly. No evidence of the creature remains; not even the wreckage it left, but it's assumed that the atomic mutations that birthed it led to its decaying very quickly."

"Also, thanks the the documentations of the ancient American videographer R. Emmerich, we know that in 1995 aliens invaded. Giant city-sized spaceships shot to the ground the world over! Not sure how we missed THAT."

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