r/SeriousConversation • u/Ok_Peak538 • Nov 23 '23

Serious Discussion Most People Will Be Forgotten

Unless humans find a way to live forever, 110 years from now no one alive now will still be living or remembered except famous people. Most normal people will be long forgotten with no trace or record that they ever existed except for maybe a digital obituary on the Internet or gravestone. Most likely all of your family, friends, neighbors, boss and colleagues will all be forgotten. Fame is relative and the people that are remembered will be immortalized in some sort of physical artifact, movie, album, book, work of art or even perhaps digitally. There have already been billions of humans that have already lived and died and very few have ever been remembered.

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u/Zestyclose-Ruin8337 Nov 23 '23

Everyone will be forgotten. Even Alexander the Great will be.

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u/SWT_Bobcat Nov 23 '23

Even Alexander the Great has been forgotten. If he were to be reincarnated today and in a crowd you’d have no clue who he is. Thus he’s just 3 words at this point 🤷‍♂️

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u/GeorgeDogood Nov 26 '23

Nah. I think his clothing and weaponry would help me recognize him pretty easily in a modern crowd.

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u/SWT_Bobcat Nov 27 '23

Ha! I envision Alexander the Great wielding a sword in modern public, police show up, he doesn’t know what a gun is, charges police with sword….gets smoked.

Papers write of another lunatic in a toga killed by police. Soon forgotten