Not many written records? We're talking about the turn of the 20th century here, not the dark ages. There were hundreds if not thousands of daily newspapers in print in the USA in 1904. Most of the major ones from that era are now stored on microfilm or other media. I'd still be hard-pressed to tell you ten major events from that year. Who, for instance, won Nobel prizes - much less who won the world series or which book was the best-seller. As a matter of fact, I doubt most people could tell you what movie won best picture in 1995.
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(it was Braveheart)
On the other hand, Shakespeare's works were written 400 years ago and most of them are still regularly performed - and of course Shakespeare is just a young'un compared to the likes of Homer and Plato, who are still going strong after 2500 years. Will Tolkien and Jackson stand the test of time so well? I doubt it. But we'll have to wait and see.
Uh huh.
>>Nature of amusements - compare board games and pencil/paper RPGs to the lowest common denominator video games of today in terms of brainpower required for comprehension.
I'm not qualified to speak on your earlier examples, but considering the fact that you are obviously of such high intelligence, one would think that you'd realize your example compares apples to oranges. Perhaps you should compare the lowest common denominator video games of today with lowest common denominator entertainment of 30 years ago . . . what might you wind up with? Perhaps the "skip-it"?
Anyway, inertia is the tendency of objects at rest to remain at rest and objects in motion to remain in motion. (I grajumatated hi skool in 2001)
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Not many written records? We're talking about the turn of the 20th century here, not the dark ages. There were hundreds if not thousands of daily newspapers in print in the USA in 1904. Most of the major ones from that era are now stored on microfilm or other media. I'd still be hard-pressed to tell you ten major events from that year. Who, for instance, won Nobel prizes - much less who won the world series or which book was the best-seller. As a matter of fact, I doubt most people could tell you what movie won best picture in 1995.
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(it was Braveheart)
On the other hand, Shakespeare's works were written 400 years ago and most of them are still regularly performed - and of course Shakespeare is just a young'un compared to the likes of Homer and Plato, who are still going strong after 2500 years. Will Tolkien and Jackson stand the test of time so well? I doubt it. But we'll have to wait and see.
Uh huh. >>Nature of amusements - compare board games and pencil/paper RPGs to the lowest common denominator video games of today in terms of brainpower required for comprehension. I'm not qualified to speak on your earlier examples, but considering the fact that you are obviously of such high intelligence, one would think that you'd realize your example compares apples to oranges. Perhaps you should compare the lowest common denominator video games of today with lowest common denominator entertainment of 30 years ago . . . what might you wind up with? Perhaps the "skip-it"? Anyway, inertia is the tendency of objects at rest to remain at rest and objects in motion to remain in motion. (I grajumatated hi skool in 2001)