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In retrospect horrible people, but a product of their times. However reading first person accounts of the ongoings of those days are truly awe inspiring.
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Yesterday I got into an argument with my father about whether we, in the current era can recreate am architectural masterpiece like kailasa temple and I told him that yes we can do it, it's just that it's too expensive now. This is a big issue with modern architecture in general. Architects would love to build a Roman or Greek or any classical style but it's too expensive and there are no skilled craftsmen nowadays. But we, at large ignore this point and it sometimes creates an illusion that the ancient folks had some "mysterious powers" or maybe aliens made the pyramids.
Yes, the ancients had a power that separates us from them. It was boredom. There was no Instagram back in the day or Netflix. They literally had nothing else to do other than to hone a craft. They would spend centuries building a single cathedral. We can do it too if we really want to do it. They weren't special it's just that the world back then was not controlled by greedy billionaires who would try to hijack our brain.
Even if there were sources of entertainment, they were accessible to the privileged and they were still grounded in reality.
May 21, 2025
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i've been a 20th century head for many years. Reading about the 19th century has been appalling but a lot of things actually make a lot of sense!!
Jan 3, 2024
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As a history major I get asked this question a lot and tbh I donโt think I would really want to travel back in time after studying about the past so much. We humans tend to over glorify the past a bit too much and the past is often crueler than we think. BUTTT I wonโt mind checking out Elizabethan age
Dec 31, 2024
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I used to feel a similar way spending hours scrolling through instagram and tiktok, which provide quick but unearned instant gratification inherently frying your brain with content. But the way i got out of it was to force myself to consume content that made me wait for the pay off, be it youtube essays, movies, books etc. it makes you regain your attention span to a significant extent and then you feel independent of that need to mindlessly scroll in just a months time. Just be careful to not fall into that rut again. Its a slippery slope.
TLDR: just watch a mad man on youtube rant about an obscure piece of media till tiktoks dont interest you anymore.
Jan 11, 2025
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A quote by Marcus Aurelius. Thoughts on this in being applicable to todayโs world?
Jan 12, 2025
this is an ethereal folk album with really somber vocal work, perfect for a rainy evening
Jan 10, 2025