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Literature the only artform to stand the test of time
1 Name: Anonymous : 2017-01-01 23:46
This depressing thought just came to me. When you think about it, centuries from now due to evolution our bodies will be very different. So as our ears change the way we perceive music will change and the greatest classical compositions will eventually just sound like gibberish. Same goes with our eyes and our perception of visual arts.
Books on the other hand are just words on a page and the rest is all up to the reader's imagination so humans will always be able to enjoy them.
2 Name: Anonymous : 2017-01-02 00:37
Dunno wtf ur talking about, but maybe my eyes are too evolved to understand what you wrote and it just seems like total bs through my overly evolved perception
3 Name: Anonymous : 2017-01-02 00:53
Evolution means species change over time. This can affect things like sight and hearing. You know most animals don't hear and see the way we do.
4 Name: Anonymous : 2017-01-02 01:03
Language changes far more rapidly than biological changes, so I imagine literature will be first before music and movies.
5 Name: Anonymous : 2017-01-02 01:06
It's funny, I distinctly remember saying quite a while ago that literature is a far superior artform to film, and you cracked it and went on a rant about how it's not.
6 Name: Anonymous : 2017-01-02 01:12
It has nothing to do with which form is superior. Rather which humans will be able to enjoy for longer.
7 Name: Anonymous : 2017-01-02 01:18
I think you're incorrect with that, then. Language and words change far more frequently and far more quickly than sound does. Humans are able to enjoy music that is in another language, whereas they cannot do that with literature.
8 Name: Anonymous : 2017-02-18 02:22
Yes, but the book can be translated. Even if English, or language as we know it dies out, as long as we still have a way to convey ideas to one another, we will still tell stories.
The art of storytelling existed long before the invention of paper or even writing. The essence of a book is the story, which can be told in any way you can think of.
Physical books as we know them may die out soon, but the stories they tell will remain.
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