Writing for Posterity

Blogs, graffiti, inscriptions, paintings, monuments and so on has one main purpose. To distribute the thoughts of the persons who felt that they needed to share their revelations and experiences with more people than themselves. From the first cave paintings to the internet blogs of our time the purpose is basically the same, sharing. But why do we humans feel the need to share our thoughts and experiences with other people (or being in some cases, religion you know…)? Well, I guess it’s just human to have that feeling. The feeling of unaccomplishment, the felling that your life and actions has to make a difference. And the best way of doing that is to compile whatever you wish to share onto something that people unmistakably will se in one way or another. Luckily there are several ways of doing this and some of the most common methods are already mentioned in the beginning of this text.

The cavemen who lived tens of thousands of years ago used paint to illustrate the thing they experienced on the walls in caves. No one really knows the purpose of the paintings and maybe there isn’t any except the wandering mind of a caveman. If that’s the case us humans haven’t changed much in 30 000 years. We just swapped the cave wall for a computer and the paint for a keyboard.