I'm not sure when I thought of this idea, but I know I've thought about it for a while.
Sometimes I think what if something happened and I was on an island with a whole bunch of little children and just me and somehow we had to survive, and there was no contact with civilization. Basically it would be as if the "old world" (this current time etc. What I mean is everything before me and the lil' kids got on this island) was gone and I was the only one to have really experienced it.
Other than thinking about if there was a beast on this island, (heh heh might not want to tell *that* story to the kids...) I think when I am learning things NOW like chemistry and history and even everyday things like how to read and what I know of other languages and places and books I've read and famous people and everything I know I try to really learn it "just in case this happens". And I know it won't or anything but I feel like it makes me want to remember things about everything I'm learning. I mean I would have to educate this whole little tribe of kids! I would be like a living World Book Encyclopedia. And if I was to expect any advances in this society well wouldn't sort of have to come from me?
Think about it. I mean, I wouldn't have to reinvent the wheel, but it took a crazy long time just for us as humans to create sewage systems like we have now, or boats, like I don't even know how to make a boat, or trains or holy cow what about planes, and, oh gosh I don't even want to think about the Internet. Or even things that seem really simple but would probably be really hard to make in reality. Like matches or even paper or knives or hold on, I would be responsible for thousands and thousands of years of knowledge! I mean, I have absolutely no idea how to make a light bulb. So like all the ideas that Edison got and the ideas that inspired the people that inspired him and the people that those people were inspired by would be gone, and we'd have to start hundreds, maybe thousands of years until me and the little ones would ever invent a light bulb.
I don't know if I would say this idea makes me more inspired to learn.. well actually I think it does. I might not be in this hypothetical situation, but what if I was like, stuck in the woods somewhere? What memories of Man vs Wild would I be able to recall? But I do think that it sort of makes me value what I do know, and also makes me feel like there's so much more I could know.
Sometimes I think what if something happened and I was on an island with a whole bunch of little children and just me and somehow we had to survive, and there was no contact with civilization. Basically it would be as if the "old world" (this current time etc. What I mean is everything before me and the lil' kids got on this island) was gone and I was the only one to have really experienced it.
Other than thinking about if there was a beast on this island, (heh heh might not want to tell *that* story to the kids...) I think when I am learning things NOW like chemistry and history and even everyday things like how to read and what I know of other languages and places and books I've read and famous people and everything I know I try to really learn it "just in case this happens". And I know it won't or anything but I feel like it makes me want to remember things about everything I'm learning. I mean I would have to educate this whole little tribe of kids! I would be like a living World Book Encyclopedia. And if I was to expect any advances in this society well wouldn't sort of have to come from me?
Think about it. I mean, I wouldn't have to reinvent the wheel, but it took a crazy long time just for us as humans to create sewage systems like we have now, or boats, like I don't even know how to make a boat, or trains or holy cow what about planes, and, oh gosh I don't even want to think about the Internet. Or even things that seem really simple but would probably be really hard to make in reality. Like matches or even paper or knives or hold on, I would be responsible for thousands and thousands of years of knowledge! I mean, I have absolutely no idea how to make a light bulb. So like all the ideas that Edison got and the ideas that inspired the people that inspired him and the people that those people were inspired by would be gone, and we'd have to start hundreds, maybe thousands of years until me and the little ones would ever invent a light bulb.
I don't know if I would say this idea makes me more inspired to learn.. well actually I think it does. I might not be in this hypothetical situation, but what if I was like, stuck in the woods somewhere? What memories of Man vs Wild would I be able to recall? But I do think that it sort of makes me value what I do know, and also makes me feel like there's so much more I could know.
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