Yes, 97% of Human History Has Been Lost, But How Catastrophic Is That?

What went through the minds of our distant ancestors?  How much have we lost as a civilization due to the fact that they were unable to write down their thoughts?

Interesting questions, to be sure.  The meme here suggests that these two men, sitting around a campfire, were talking about things like virtue, mathematics, and the proper role of government, tens of thousands of years before Socrates and Plato.

I doubt it, especially considering that very few of us today spend even a few minutes each year grappling with these ideas.