Message from @ETBrooD
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? Maybe I did, chat has gotten a little chaotic
My argument is that we don't know which values illiterate people had, since they didn't express their values through time. They can learn chants all they want, that doesn't change the fact that they can't create a big library of personal values that would show their true diversity of thought.
So for us it is impossible to assume that they either did or didn't have diverse values.
Still wrong
Do you know how Grimms tales were made?
And what do they reflect?
No
I can vaguely remember a few of the stories
They were a collection of folklore of rural Germany, collected by the Grimm brothers
What they found was that these stories reflected many similar elements and often times contained missing links with Germanic Iron Age historical events
Which had been recorded elsewhere
"Many similar elements" does not equate to "values consistent through time"
It does tell us which values remained and which didn't, and couple it with historical events, you have the complete picture
No it doesn't tell us that, because it's only a collection, and it's not a word-for-word representation of any values
The main point is, there has always been a transmission of beliefs from the older generation to the younger, even when they were illiterate
It's also likely that the Grimm brothers put their own spin on the stories
So to sum it up, it proves nothing about consistent values
It proves that people propagated their beliefs regardless of literacy
Which is really a self evident point anyway
Propapagated their beliefs... through time?
Across all or most people?
Mutations of beliefs occurred mainly through wars and other upheavals like famine
That's a non-answer
And even such events were recorded and passed down as folklore
*getting increasingly bored*
Not to mention, mutations didn't cause rapid changes. So for instance, it would be highly rare for a stable society to go from rejecting homosexuality to accepting it, unlike in today's post modern age
Aight, no answer then
I wanted to go to bed anyway, gn8
That's the answer
Nope it's not
Read again
Ok read it again, it's still a non-answer
> So three or four generations later those beliefs would be consistent?
> Across all or most people?
I provided the answer that it mutated very slowly, and only changed substantially if there were wars or other major events
Still a non-answer
@EmoGazebo And then one day, for no reason at all...
Don't worry, Hitler made sure no new Nazi uprising could happen in the coming decades
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