• lischni_tschelowek
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    54
    ·
    11 months ago

    In their haste to preserve the scrolls, they tip over some oil lamp and… 🔥

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      26
      ·
      11 months ago

      It had to happen, because it did happen.

      Unless we’re playing by Back To The Future rules, in which case … I dunno man, whatever gets him to not hook up with his mom.

  • Wrufieotnak@feddit.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    42
    ·
    11 months ago

    Maybe that’s why so few books survived the fire.

    They were brought to the future and we are in the in between time. * X files music*

  • Lyre@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    21
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    11 months ago

    I appreciate that you have removed gender stereotypes from this meme format

    • Karjalan@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      11 months ago

      Was just about to say this. It’s wild and sad how often it is “women lame. Man smart, strongk” with this format.

        • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          11 months ago

          The world is far too normal and it’s a travesty. Everyone should be weirder. Go goth! Start a religion! Invent a new gender! Learn everything there is to know about trains. Normal sucks.

          • Sergio@slrpnk.net
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            11 months ago

            Goths are pretty normal, they just like a certain music and/or fashion style.

      • Lyre@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        11 months ago

        I mean, it’s better than women bad, isn’t it?

  • Sergio@slrpnk.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    17
    ·
    11 months ago

    Go grab those Mayan codices before the Spanish could burn them. Hundred of years of history lost, all because of Christian superstition.

  • cmbabul@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    11 months ago

    Someone needs to take out Machiavelli or otherwise prevent him from writing The Prince while we’re in the past. Might not do anything but it could fix a lot if it does

      • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        22
        ·
        11 months ago

        Yes. I read The Prince and I think Machiavelli’s reputation as malevolent and scheming is undeserved. Perhaps he shocked the sensibilities of some by saying the quiet part out loud, but it would be foolish for either a ruler or his subjects to be unaware of that quiet part due to misplaced idealism. This remains true in the present day.

        Edit: I assume that you know this, but I thought that a reply to you was a good place to say it to others.

  • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    11 months ago

    First stop, Nalanda university. It’s said that when the Mongols burned it, it didn’t stop for a month.

  • buzz86us@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    11 months ago

    I would want to see Shakespeare’s lost plays. Though most likely I’d see every Marx brothers performance.