Well, I decided that, while I understand mattresses that make you sore when you wake up, actively trying to stab me is not acceptable behaviour in a mattress. So I bought a new one
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It depends who you talk to, but I learned in school that Mesopotamia was the beginning of "civilisation." In other words, they wrote stuff down, and had politics and stuff, we know enough about them, and they're similar enough to us that we respect them as a civilisation. Before that, we don't really know much, and most people don't want to know ("What, you mean white people weren't always on top? I must erase this heresy from my memory!").
I can't remember where Christians say we started (like, before the flood), but I think it was around Egypt or Ethiopia or something. Either way, I bet a lot of people want to forget that Iraq is right in the middle of the beginning of civilisation as we know it. The European style of teaching history tends to pretty much ignore anything that's not related to Europeans.
I hope we're not the last world, just the most recent... I wonder whether the next one will be a blend, and not centrally located anywhere in particular. The internet provides for some interesting new possible combinations (assuming it survives), and much of the world's consciousness has been changed already by exposure to things far away.
My old mattress came free with the apartment. It's hard to turn down free stuff, especially when you're broke. :-D
I can't remember where Christians say we started (like, before the flood), but I think it was around Egypt or Ethiopia or something. Either way, I bet a lot of people want to forget that Iraq is right in the middle of the beginning of civilisation as we know it. The European style of teaching history tends to pretty much ignore anything that's not related to Europeans.
I hope we're not the last world, just the most recent... I wonder whether the next one will be a blend, and not centrally located anywhere in particular. The internet provides for some interesting new possible combinations (assuming it survives), and much of the world's consciousness has been changed already by exposure to things far away.
My old mattress came free with the apartment. It's hard to turn down free stuff, especially when you're broke. :-D
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