If the Library of Alexandria didn't burn down...

[Fluffernutter]

What would society be like today?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria

 

[JAEGERX]

less dumb thats for sure, such a shame all that knowledge lost

 

[BisexualMMA]

 

[Fluffernutter]

 

[cottagecheesefan]

This is a question that deeply plagues me each night. As I search the existential cloud of existence for any type of meaning, I cant help but think that some part of humanity was lost during the burning of the library at Alexabdria.

 

[heavyarms21]

One of the more dangerous enemies of knowledge are people trying to shape the future by twisting history or erasing accounts of the past because they are either uncomfortable or don't support certain ideas.

 

[JOE QUEEF]

During their first stops, Brian and Stewie experience the following:

• A non-Christian Quahog, where Stewie claims that technological and medical advances are 1,000 years ahead of the real Quahog due to the lack of Christian influence. Meg is depicted as stunningly beautiful, and Stewie says even she is "one of the uglier ones," especially since Lois is really beautiful.

 

[revoltub]

They were probably all lame books about astrology or math anyway

 

[Strychnine]

less dumb thats for sure, such a shame all that knowledge lost

All because they wouldn't let the common people utilize it. The commoners had no skin in that game and the elites didn't have enough numbers to defend it.

 

[Strychnine]

During their first stops, Brian and Stewie experience the following:

• A non-Christian Quahog, where Stewie claims that technological and medical advances are 1,000 years ahead of the real Quahog due to the lack of Christian influence. Meg is depicted as stunningly beautiful, and Stewie says even she is "one of the uglier ones," especially since Lois is really beautiful.

Heck, plain Meg wood!

 

[Midnighter]

I bet they had good porn mags.

 

[Amerikuracana]

I dint think it set us back THAT far. There was no advanced medicine in there. Farming/agriculture, moral code, math, and medicine got us where we are.

 

[Phr3121]

If the Library of Alexandria didn't burn down, what would society be like today?

Popular knowledge about the Library often amounts to little more than myth.

"The Great Library of Alexandria may have never experienced any one cataclysmic destruction which brought Alexandria’s intellectual legacy to its knees. Instead, a succession of buildings, possibly many libraries or many branches of one, took damage from centuries of turmoil. Alongside these physical destructions were social, political, and religious shifts that changed the intellectual landscape of Egypt."

"At no point was the literary heritage of the Great Library completely erased. The great works of Classical literature continued to be studied in Alexandria throughout Late Antiquity, and the city’s gradually declining importance as an intellectual capital had more to do with the rise of other cities such as Rome, Constantinople, and Damascus."

 

[HunterAcosta]

We’d all be driving flying cars .

 

[ObamaPhoneLady]

If the Christians didn't get to it, the muslims would have a few hundred years later.

 

[Danger Dave]

Did they water their crops with pedialyte too?

 

[lsa]

They were probably all lame books about astrology or math anyway

So no porn??

 

[Gutter Chris]

Did they water their crops with pedialyte too?

No they used brawndo because its what plants crave

 

[loyalyolayal]

If the Christians didn't get to it, the muslims would have a few hundred years later.

Idk, early muslims were heavily involved in astronomy, mathematics and science.

 

[GordoBarraBJJ]

It wouldn't change things - there'd still be morons like trump, that brazilian guy, leading the world's countries.

You'd still have hatred and killing over things as silly as skin colour, ethnicity, different Ideologies, religion.

Spend some time in the war room and you'll see humanity - no matter how much knowledge obtained - will always have a large population that claims enlightenment but are nothing more than educated (in some cases) POS who'd kill you in second if allowed (or if they president says to in so many words).