The more things change, the more they stay the same
AwfulUsername123 on
This is fake. No “Assyrian tablet” says this and books did not exist at the time.
real-alextatto007 on
How tf do they have “books” in 2800 BC?
Archivist2016 on
Billions must sell low quality copper
Some_Cockroach2109 on
Repost
Reasonable_Problem88 on
Cicero plagerized this Assyrian tablet.. his quote is nearly identical to this..
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”
History eats itself 🤯
Uedaht on
I have 2 points against this:
1. it’s a repost
2. it’s a repost of something completely fake and historically inaccurate
OsgyrRedwrath on
The original quote is actually by Cicero:
“The times are bad today: children no longer obey their parents and everybody is writing a book.”
Separate_Fondant_241 on
u/repostsleuthbot
Euklidis on
The proto-doomer-boomer
Jewjitsu11b on
They are still around dude.
Lavamelon7 on
Repost, fake, and anachronistic
Doomhammer24 on
And merchants keep selling me bad copper
Wiccamanplays on
We don’t have tablets from Assyria from before approximately the 24th century BC. If you’re going to shitpost, shitpost more credibly.
Ok-Comedian-6725 on
the assyrians didn’t exist in 2800 BC, this would’ve been in sumerian and i highly doubt we’d have access to a tablet stating that someone would want to “write a book” during this period, as etchings on clay tablets were about the most sophisticated writing that was done. they’d probably word it rather as “become a scribe”, but this is more a technical profession than a modern day author.
speaking of ancient documents written about becoming scribes though, there is a fun egyptian papyrus document (from around 1000 years later) that we’ve found where apparently a scribe is trying to make young people join their profession by bad mouthing everybody else
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The more things change, the more they stay the same
This is fake. No “Assyrian tablet” says this and books did not exist at the time.
How tf do they have “books” in 2800 BC?
Billions must sell low quality copper
Repost
Cicero plagerized this Assyrian tablet.. his quote is nearly identical to this..
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”
History eats itself 🤯
I have 2 points against this:
1. it’s a repost
2. it’s a repost of something completely fake and historically inaccurate
The original quote is actually by Cicero:
“The times are bad today: children no longer obey their parents and everybody is writing a book.”
u/repostsleuthbot
The proto-doomer-boomer
They are still around dude.
Repost, fake, and anachronistic
And merchants keep selling me bad copper
We don’t have tablets from Assyria from before approximately the 24th century BC. If you’re going to shitpost, shitpost more credibly.
the assyrians didn’t exist in 2800 BC, this would’ve been in sumerian and i highly doubt we’d have access to a tablet stating that someone would want to “write a book” during this period, as etchings on clay tablets were about the most sophisticated writing that was done. they’d probably word it rather as “become a scribe”, but this is more a technical profession than a modern day author.
speaking of ancient documents written about becoming scribes though, there is a fun egyptian papyrus document (from around 1000 years later) that we’ve found where apparently a scribe is trying to make young people join their profession by bad mouthing everybody else
[https://www.worldhistory.org/article/189/the-papyrus-lansing-be-a-scribeor-else/](https://www.worldhistory.org/article/189/the-papyrus-lansing-be-a-scribeor-else/)