Ask Lemmy

They may not remember us by our names, but they'll be able to see the effects of the choices we made.

How many people do you know who were alive 600 years ago?

If someone actually assassinated 47. They may last that long in history teachings.

No.

Depends how big you fuck up.

No.

Because history remembers people or groups who have made astounding and monumental moments that change the course of history.

They aren't going to remember a dude who spent most of their time jerking off and doing the average lifestyle.

And why 600 years?

ngl I don't know if the earth will even be inhabitable in 600 years

The vast, vast majority of people are forgotten within 100 years. Pretty much need to be in an extremely high position where records are kept, like presidents, or do something extraordinarily positive or negative.

I strongly doubt anyone reading this post will be remembered after the people they met or interacted with directly have died.

I will write a blog complaining about copper prices. If my sources are correct I will be remembered forever.

Well, do you remember anyone from 1425 or even 1625?

Few people left who remember me now already

I'll be forgotten once me, my wife, my family and my few friends die, so left say nobody will know me or my accomplishments 50 years from now, tops.

"It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sommbitch or another."

No one needs to remember me except my kids. Maybe my grandkids.

They will if I eat the Mona Lisa

I don't really want to be remembered for generations, if I am that means that statistically I was a bastard

I imagine some archivists might find the lost fragments of this server is some ruins and by some miracle, maybe extract this very thread.

To be fair I don't remember anyone from 600 years in the future.

If someone is immortal they would.

I don't want to brag, but I've made a meme or two that got dozens of up votes. It's basically immortality. I'm sure there will be statues and monuments of me by then.

There's a running phrase that gets' mentioned a lot in the Peanuts comic strip: "500 years from now, who'll know the difference?"

Just wanted to mention that. Peace ✌️

Dude I’ll forget you ever existed when I leave this thread. Bye.

yes, but only the biggest brightest bonfires.

will charlie kirk be known? nah. will Donald Trump be known? absolutely.

the bigger the bonfire, the more damaging it is to society.

I mean, I'm sure you can name a half dozen or so people from the 1400s. I highly doubt anyone will remember me personally as one of those half dozen people, but I'm fairly certain that with the advances in technology the average people of the year 2625 will be dimly aware of closer to a dozen people alive today.

Not me.

But from this echo chamber, it surely seems like the current us president will live in infamy. Think about online debates over who was worst president ever: now it’s clear. And if he truly is accelerating the fall of the American century, then yes, he’ll be taught about ins cho for centuries to come

Brave of you to assume that humanity will exist in 600 years.

Actually, we might be, but the better-off ones will be back at sticks and stones and huddling around wood fires and the like.