• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Not to mention, they’ve lost the cultural primer to understand, even if they had the original texts.

    Like, even people who study this shit for a living don’t fully understand what they’re getting at or all the cultural references. But it probably safe to say that if it was “prophetic” it was probably a thinly veiled criticism of someone powerful.