#ouuuugh this knowledge makes me want to curl up in a ball and shrivel up (/positive)
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uncanny-tranny · 3 months ago
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Every time I think too deeply about how we've found the bones of thousands and thousands of years old ancient people and we've given them people names I just
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Guys, do you get it? We put to name these ancient peoples whose bodies vaguely resemble us and we go, "you're one of us, and we will give you a name that we have invented". They are not here to have a voice for themselves, but they are here to be remembered.
To be named is to be loved.
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