Wouldn’t It Be Cool If: Memory got better with age?
WIBCI our memories exponentially got better throughout HISTORY?
According the Ancient-Literature.com Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey has over 134,500 words or 12,109 lines and takes about 9 hours to complete if read at 250 words per minute. Yet this was memorized and passed through generations through retelling. So people COULD do this, thousands of years ago? Did we unlearn how to maximize our brains?
How many phone numbers can you rattle off. How many of those are cell phone numbers vs. number you used to dial from land lines? I feel that convenience has atrophied our brain’s natural ability to astound. The Odyssey was written between 400-500 BCE, or over 2 thousand 4 hundred years ago…. a poem over 130,000 words long! Imagine if we spent 1 thousand of those years perfecting this gift of memory, what feats could be accomplished with just thought?
What do YOU think?
Last Updated on 08/15/2025 by Death of Hypatia Inc.
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