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Originally Posted by M.D. Holloway
I remember spending hours in the library in college and would sometimes wonder at all the work done and wondered about all the folks that wrote the volumes and save for a scant few all are pretty ambiguous. Who are these folks? What are they doing now? Are they dead?
It doesn't stop there. When I drive and spot a really old house I wonder about the architect who designed it - you know, the old victorians. Homes of style. Who designed them?
And then I wonder about that machines and industrial design and ....shyt everything!
So much energy and time and creativity and engineering has gone into it all...fascinating.
And of course I start considering alien technology (if there are such things) and if so do they go about it like humans?
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Originally Posted by herr_oberst
If everyone does a little bit, results pile up.
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To the OP, yes, I also often wonder about such things also. The fact that probably 99.99% of the individuals responsible for such things will remain
anonymous (I think that's what you meant to say in your OP) is a function of everyone's role in a civilization. When you wonder "Who wrote all that" or "Who designed that house", you are asking about yourself, what you have committed your working life to, and asking about every other person who does a job that may eventually leave a mark on civilization. It's like one of those large pictures of, say, a beautiful woman that you see from a distance, but when you get close you see it's really made up of thousands of tiny photos of different people. You're asking about who those individuals are. Save for a rare few, you'll never know. But you are one.
Beyond our very small circle of friends and family, very few of us will be known to civilization, but the work we did, the things we built, the ideas we brought forward, all contribute to civilization to some degree, and that's why I included oberst's post.