Attention span

It is said that an audience in ancient Rome or Greece could hear a play and most of the audience could if asked recite the play near to perfect.

This is nearly 2500 years ago for the Greeks and 2100 years for the Romans

We laud ourselves as being greater than our ancestors. And there is probably Greek and Roman blood all over the world not just in the soil but also in the DNA being that soldiers like to have sex a lot more than they like killing.

The liking of sex bit isn’t the point though.

The idea is if we are related to societies which boasted such recall and not to mention that the Greek and Roman civilizations had nearly 100% literacy rates where in the US literacy is estimated to be around 45%.

Not that literacy denotes attention span but I think it does help a bit.

How is it in a mere blink of time most of us walk away from speeches, plays and lectures with only a bit of information. How have we been able to come so far yet loose so much.



Ciao,

invisible don