I'm going to be forgotten by history aren't I /his/?

>>3011319
Well maybe. Your best bet is to attach onto someone who you think could make an impact and ride the coattails into the spotlight, even if you are standing just a little out of it.

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

Most people are.

>>3011319
wtf you are Homer Simpson, people won't forget you that easily fucking heck

>>3011334
So nothing really matters and we are all forgotten in the end?

>>3011389

Yes, no one will care about Julius Caesar in a million years.

don't worry, in this day and age even the plebeian has been recorded in some clerical annals

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why do you give a shit about that of all things?

you can still do some extremely autistic shooting spree and be remembered as autist in your own comfy wikipedia corner

>>3011319
Especially if nuclear war happens, then no one would remember the history we know.

You're on 4chan.

You have likely been forgotten by the present.

>>3012074
Tremendous.

>>3011564
Once this shitball is glass there will be nothing left to worry about.

If you have children and leave a decent amount of photographs/records, some genealogist in your family will hopefully keep a trail.

If you want to stack the odds, be that genealogist. Make a big ol' family tree and distribute it to your family members to help out later genealogists down the line. I've found stuff as far as 100 years back but lots of people can do much better. Bonus points if you achieve something of even mild note, people love military service in their family trees you know, it's rare you see people neglect to mention their x x x grandfather who served in the war when people discuss family history.

As long as it's in the archives, your shitposting legacy will remain forever on the internet.

>>3011446
You dont know that.

Yes.

>>3012237

You don't know Julius Caesar exists. You don't know anybody exists. The only person you know exists is you. "You don't know that" is a bit of a bunk argument.

Of course the fact we don't 'know' something doesn't stop someone from making an educated guess. To give you a little bit of perspective, the time that has passed between ourselves and Julius Caesar would need to pass 500 times over in the span of a million years. How many empires might rise and fall in that time? How many cataclysms could wipe us out, or at least destroy our collective knowledge? Even if the knowledge remains, how do we know he'll be even remotely as prominent to a different civilization rather than western civ as we have it?

At least Herostratus will never be forgotten

>>3011319
Try to assassinate someone. Like Trump, Moot or Shakira.

>>3012424
Not him but...
Well, if those people have a grasp of history they'd know that the digitization happened in West in 2000 AD and that they people causing were using a Latin alphabet because of the Romans. So most likely they'd wonder why Latin and explain it with Rome.

If they don't have a grasp on history I will just turn your "your don't know that" is a bad argument against you.

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>>3011334
Its both sad and warming in a weird way, that all we do is fleeting.
You will never be remembered throughout history, and yet there is no pressure as you were never meant to.

there were billions and billions of people like this in recorded history, living in every corner of the world, living every kind of life, counting their generations until memory failed, relics crumbled and records ended, and much before, countless generations of prehistoric men who saw days and seasons pass, growing old, lingering with every obstacle and thinking of their place in the universe, and who knows how many hundreds of millions of years of hominids and other precursor mammals leading up to them too, having days go by with a vague thought shaping into the idea of a purpose in their mind.

they existed, all of them, and they all lead to us as we are now, if not biologically through an untraceable number of crossings, then by putting their grain in the sand and changing the world by means of existing, walking, building, fighting and harvesting. That continuity is never broken, you are an individual but you are shaped by your past and you are a past being shaped for someone else in the future. That's why history matters in the first place, the great men, the wonders are remembered and preserved, but it's us who are alive.

im going to live forever through my shitty youtube mash ups, and other stuff i did online thats permanent

>>3011319
Not me. Proud to have amerindian blood. IQ 135, not that much, met people with more than me.

Studying to make my own radio channel and educate the stupid spaniards about politics because the people who are moderately experienced at knowing those socialist parties, are getting old and dying.

I hope I can help them and then create a audio-visual program to educate the peruvians too.

>>3012424
We are grounded in the present which is informed by our collective past that is why history, and its uses and abuses, is such an interesting point of discussion.

Your line of questioning is rhetorical as much as the answer the anon you responded to provided.

>>3011334
One of my favorite poems, and I'm not really a poem person.

>>3011446
Julius Caesar has been forgotten even now.

Sure, we have the name and a collection of stories, but no one remembers the actual person, some of the stories can be doubted, and even the name is pronounced "wrong."

All men are forgotten. The only thing we have are shadows, and even those fade in time.