Quote Originally Posted by English assassin
You can see where I am going with this. We all imagine that in a thousand years scholars will be studying writers like Joyce and Borges and thinkers like Popper to reconstruct our civilisation. Instead, all they will have to work from is Best of Vivid and Girls Gone Wild.
One imagines this is characteristic of the first veneer of historical reconstruction and interest.

After all, the modern queues in Pompeii are not to study the intricate marble-work at the temple of Vespasian.