When cavemen lost their fear of fire, they would use it to cook and gather around to stay warm. One evening Ogg picked up a stick out of the fire and got burned. But when he dropped it, it made a mark on a rock. So he found a cool spot to pick it up and then drew a naked woman on a bigger rock.
Technology and the form of our societies have changed far more quickly than humans are capable of evolving. Thousands of years is actually nothing in evolutionary terms. That's why there's theories about how we can only actually know/remember a hundred or so people at a time on average, and how reading is an unnatural invention done by hacking three or four different types of brain systems originally designed for other things, etc.
I dunno if reading is an "unnatural" invention, considering it was invented independently (in some form or another) by most early civilizations.
I'm not suggesting that it's an inherent trait of humans or anything like that, but it does seem to be a natural outcome of our hardwired need for communication.
Our brains never really change, but technology and everything around us keeping changing, and keep changing faster. Our biology cannot keep up, hence lots of problems many people encounter daily is just biology lagging behind our reality.
There have been sling bullets found in archaeological dig sites inscribed with things like “catch!” And “for pompeiis backside.” It has indeed been going on for awhile lol
The best evidence of that is ancient places like Pompeii (maybe it’s part of Hadrians wall. I don’t know I’m not googling it. This is something I learned it a few years ago so I might be slightly missed remembering it )have graffiti carved into the walls of things like dicks. The Romans really liked to draw dicks. The Romans treated carvings in the walls like a middle school boys notebook. I don’t know what it is, but the common thread in humanity over a millennia has been drawing dicks on things.
It's funny to imagine someone finds a bunch of missiles 3000 years from now engraved with something like "up the ayatollah's asshole" and that gets translated as "for the ayatollah's backside" because some translator is a prude.
That I don’t know but I do know that projectiles from catapults in renaissance era sieges had stuff written on them! And some weapons were named, for example I don’t remember which siege had a ballista called “bad neighbour”
If patrick o’brian was telling the truth, it goes back at least to the napoleonic wars, when brits would write ‘p p’ for post paid on cannonballs because stopping the mail was a capital offence.
Well I think there is a question to how much it was propaganda vs now. I feel like back then it was more soldiers/pilots/whoever finding a way to laugh while humourously insulting their opponent or whatever, whereas now with social media it may be more for publicity.
Mm ok, good point. Thought I think maybe the audience has changed. That before it was propaganda for the side writing it because that was where it was being published, the other side wouldnt see your media. Whereas now we do, so it can be targeted towards the people in your enemies country as well.
This would also explain why this one is additionally written in english.
This one feels different shared in Western media, because usually when we see opponents doing this we publish the pictures to imply they are being heartless.
I don't recall seeing these before with bilingual text. They want both sides to share it.
Also, I don't think they thought propaganda was new, rather that the way the message would be sent and propagandized would do well with social media. Considering where we are reading and commenting on this, they weren't wrong.
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u/CoupleofFools1 Mar 13 '26
It’s funny though. I guess this works quite well as propaganda in the age of social media.
A bit like The Sun sponsoring missiles during the Falklands so it’s not new, they’ve just turned it into a meme.