Tim Urban

And who are they all?

And what was their life like?

And it's, you know, I think we have no idea what it was like to be them.

The thing that's craziest about the people of the far past is not just that they had different lives, they had different fears, they had different dangers and different responsibilities, and they lived in tribes and everything, but they didn't know anything.

Like, we just take it for granted that we're born on top of this tower of knowledge.

And from the very beginning, we

We know that the earth is a ball floating in space.

And we know that we're going to die one day.

And we know that, you know, we evolved from animals.

And all the, those were all like incredible, you know, epiphanies quite recently.

And the people a long time ago, they just had no idea what was going on.

And like, I'm kind of jealous because I feel like it, I mean, it might've been scary to not know what's going on, but it also, I feel like would be, you'd have a sense of awe and wonder all the time.

And you don't know what's going to happen next.

And once you learn, you're kind of like, oh, that's like, it's a little grim.

Oh, yeah.

They also fell in love.

They also had friends, and they had falling outs with friends.

They didn't shower much, though.

How many people in history have experienced a hot shower?

Like, almost none.