I mean nothing is eternal but I do get that feeling. The immensity of all the people who lived and died and how your life on the scale is so short and will end soon. Im not sure I want to have any type of written immortality and not sure anyone does. Do you really know the person who wrote or made things? Even people that meet and know you just have a kind of personal concept of you influenced by their own being. Ones entity is really something to unique to them and can't really be after it is. Heck do I know myself yesterday like I do today or last week or from last month or last year or last decade. My 5 year old self is dead. I can remember a bit from the time but can't really wrap my head around how I thought and who I was.

I think cave art is also quite intimate. Like the hand prints and stencils are very human.

Many years ago I heard a comedian tell a joke, "I come from a long line of people who had kids."

He was a funny guy, with a funny set, but that line always stuck with me.

On the other hand, the number of humans from 50,000 years ago whose names you don’t know is vastly smaller than the number of humans alive right now whose names you don’t know.

I just like to imagine there was a real person called Unga Bunga though. It seems statistically likely. Or some guy named, like, Andrew or something, but with absolutely no linguistic ties to any of the modern name's roots, like it arose independently more than once.

I have a Geneology book that have the names of my ancestors that were alive circa 1200 CE... (like 20something generations ago)

But like... does that even matter?

Idk what they even did except like they village wrote a short summary of what that time was like but idk what their jobs were or their behavoirs, thoughts, philosophical beliefs, political beliefs, or maybe if they were just as toxic as my parents... I literally have no info on them other than their name... so does knowing the name of your ancestors even matter?

(Also its male ancestors only thats recorded in the geneology book... thanks, patriarchy 🤦‍♂️)

they probably exploded lands

Khaal explores. Khaal not explodes. Khaal not dumb.

Have a read of how much history is embedded in Australian aboriginal oral stories. Their stories go a long long way back

You don't understand how much this hurts me

You don't know John Sapien and Jennifer Sapien?

you don't know Kyle?

We know a few. "Fire", for example. And "Axe". The inventions named after them are still in use to this day.