Hey what should I do with this book?

I started out writing about one of the things that I’ve been meditating on lately being the falling away from the daily use of weapons in our modern age. However a lot of other thoughts crept in regarding today’s world with the world when the Hagakure was written 300 years ago.

Our worlds are very different but still face many of the same issues.

Lots of books have been around for centuries the Hagakure being just one of many some have been around for many centuries.

The range of topics varies but my thoughts have been have these oldest books survived because of the great knowledge written down on the pages, stone, animal hide, mashes and dried plant matter or what ever materials they were penned.

Many cases the argument would seem fairly easy yes these books contain knowledge that needs to be known by the generations that follow and people have taken great care to preserve them.

However the nagging thought in the back of my mind is are these really the best things that man had offered up and what remains from 2000 years ago are just what happened to survive until the modern day.

I’m sure there is some doubt to the latter argument but take the library of Alexandria burned to the ground by Romans what knowledge was lost then for all time. What painful discoveries already made had to be made over again. How many times have we had to relearn that the world is round or round-ish, or that the misuse of lands leads to the death of the people living on those lands? How close have we come to extinction? They estimate that the plague killed off over a quarter of the world population at that time.

Has that ever happened before and all record of it has been lost to the whims of a tyrant’s torch? Or even an accidental fire, every major European city and several here in the US have been extremely damaged by mass fires.

Our transfer of knowledge into technology which isn’t compatible with the next generation of technology, could we be our own killers of knowledge in our quest to be better?

But is what survives the best stuff that was ever out there or will somebody find some thing buried somewhere and say, ‘We found better stuff.’ But this time it won’t be juice it will be something even cooler.

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