Anthropologists in the future are going to have their work cut out for them trying to figure out what was really going on in this generation. On Twitter alone, there are 400 million Tweets per day. Even if each tweet is only 10 words, that is 4 Billion words written on Twitter each day. That is 6800 copies of War And Peace being written on a daily basis. This is a pile of information for anthropologists to plow through. And many will ask the same question: “Who the hell are the Kardashians?”
If one day people won’t know who the Kardashian are, that will be one beautiful day.
To confuse the bejaysus out of things even more, take a look at how many followers Bieber now has!
You know I never really thought of it before – but I guess twitter is actually beneficial in that it encourages people to write, even the aforementioned imbeciles.
Not sure if that is such a good thing. It also encourages them to share their opinions too much! LOL
Of course the caliber of tweets is so inferior to the thoughts reflected in War and Peace that I suspect we will be considered as imbeciles to future anthropologists.
Archaeologists digging in Pompeii found graffiti written on walls, including one that said “Caius is an ass.” That was the Roman equivalent of a tweet, which goes to prove that they were imbeciles, too, just like we are.
There are always imbeciles. It is part of the human condition. That is what makes life fun.
I agree with you LB, but I am going to admit this: I hated War and Peace. Absolutely hated it.
What’s to hate about a book that takes two lifetimes to read? 😉