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*cough*Beiber*cough.
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08-26-2014, 03:50 PM | #73 | |
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It's hard to separate the effects of talent and social factors, but there have been some attempts at blind experiments in ranking new music and letting people talk about it with and see the buying statistics from only a subset of other participants that have been pretty interesting. What you see is that the top work in any one cell, will almost always be at least above the median in the other cells, but may not be near the top of the list. That is, if you ran the history of art repeatedly, not changing any of the works actually produced but allowing small random changes in circumstances, the result would likely be something like many of the same guys would be good enough to show up in the art history texts, and the list of the 1000 best painters from any two runs would likely have seven or eight hundred names in common, but the 5 or 10 names so famous everybody knows them would be different almost every time.
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08-27-2014, 10:54 AM | #74 |
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History does often seem like a study of stampeding cattle in which every spot trampled appears inevitable to us after the fact. But is really far more random than we prefer to believe.
A couple of completely unpredictable events led to my life now.
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08-28-2014, 06:07 AM | #75 |
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I thought of a complicated set of treasures to gather with interesting problems in the gathering. Folklore, folksongs, folktales, ect... the lore of the common folk in many different periods of history. Thoughout most of human history the vast majority of humanity and their world of the mind have been silent and forgotten. In an Infinate Worlds setting this can be changed.
However, mysterious strangers who want to know what the common folk know would seem unnatural in most periods of history. Many people from the local lordling to the local smugglers might assume that the information is either really about them or is something they should control. Even in the 21st century on out Earth oral history is the hardest and most dangerous field to research. Try collecting the lost fairy tales of England when James II is on the throne and any one talking to the people is a threat to restoration settlement. Try discovering the cunning-folk of 16th century England after the Witchcraft Act has passed. Try seaching for survivals of pagan religious ideas in 7th century Europe. Much fun may be had.
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Throughout most of human history, xenophobia was the norm. Anyone that didn't just look like the local ethnicity by our standards but like close relatives was immediately distrusted. Those with accents more so.
Xenophobia and groupthink becomes far more pronounced in times and areas of disease and strife.
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You commit an egregious taboo based around a myth you were trying to learn more about. Death defying comedy right there.
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Another not-especially exotic commodity that would be distinctly different between worlds is wine.
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Drinks and foods of all kinds really. Though most would be local delicacies.
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