Stealing this for later use

The Tale of Gengi is for 11th century CE, not BCE.

I'm pretty sure this tablet is fake, but I do remember how similar people in those times were to us when I read the translated tablets from that period. One that I remember most was talking about a parent who tried to bribe a teacher to give his son better grades.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/4923/was-this-quote-on-a-clay-tablet-about-unruly-kids-written-by-an-assyrian

TL;DR: it's probably not Assyrian at least, and it's likely either a mistranslation of something or a complete fabrication

I found this on skeptics stack exchange. Supposedly, it's a hoax/urban legend that goes back way before the internet. (The entire stack exchange page on this topic is fun to read, btw)

The quote originally came from Prof. George T.W. Patrick of University of Iowa, who translated an ancient stone tablet into modern English and published in "Popular Science Monthly", May 1913. The full text of the original can be found online at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/popularsciencemo82newy, page 493.

One writer found this same quote in a slightly earlier source dating to 1908.

Yet another writer noted that there was no Chaldea but ...

... there was a stele of a King Naram-Sin of Akkad which has been exhibited in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum since 1892. The inscription on this stele is fragmentary and has nothing to do with degeneration.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/4923/was-this-quote-on-a-clay-tablet-about-unruly-kids-written-by-an-assyrian

Assyria didn't exist in 2800 BCE, either.

maybe it's "writing scrolls", but this meme just swapped in the word book.. it's just the idea that instead of actually going out and achieving something new, people are satisfied with being commentators on the important events of the past..

earliest proto-novel that we know of is The Tale of Genji, that dates to roughly the 11th century

What makes it a proto novel compared to Greek or Indian mythology texts?

Don't even get me started on finding decent copper.

but it still lasted for another 1600 years

Everyone wants to write a book but they are waiting for books to be invented first.

2800BC!

Let's give the proper respect to the people who invented it.

Other than the fact the Assyrians didn't collapse until 600 BC and it wasn't for any of those reasons.

Of course, Assyria also didn't exist in 2800 BC so the meme probably meant 800-600 BC for a 2800 year old tablet, but STILL, the old man yelling at clouds was wrong.

No one will dig up our Lemmy posts in 1000s of years. :(

Same as it ever was

13.8 billion years old.