The message is nice, but “being nice” is straight up not a good way to achieve immortality. The people you’ve affected will remember you but one generation out and you’re forgotten. And that assumes people ruminate on the kind acts they’ve experienced a lot.
The people we remember are mostly remembered for doing grand things. Maybe that’s not a convenient truth, but it is true.
The message is nice, but “being nice” is straight up not a good way to achieve immortality. The people you’ve affected will remember you but one generation out and you’re forgotten. And that assumes people ruminate on the kind acts they’ve experienced a lot.
The people we remember are mostly remembered for doing grand things. Maybe that’s not a convenient truth, but it is true.
Yeah, you have to burn a library or something.
Or, on the flip side, invent the system that every library uses to sort books
Well that’s on us. We should be better at remembering kindness. We should never forget Mr Rogers
True… but also, turning an enemy into an ally is a very powerful strategy (and it works in reverse too).