My coworker said he was having a bad day and I said ‘it can’t be that bad you haven’t started howling like a sad dog yet’ and he let out the saddest most pathetic little howl I’ve ever heard and I was like 'damn ok do you need to have a break?’
Banned from manager training for making my coworker bark.
If you want a good object lesson about what we can and can’t know about the past, we don’t know Ea-Nasir was a dishonest merchant selling shoddy goods.
What we know is we have found a cache of complaint tablets about him selling low quality copper as high quality, in a site that was probably his own residence. We know multiple people complained he was a cheat. It’s entirely possible they were right. It’s also entirely possible that he kept these complaint letters as records of people he would no longer do business with, because they had made accusations and threats in order to bully him into giving them free copper. That is an equally valid interpretation of the evidence.
My point is not that we have maligned Ea-Nasir, my point is that thousands of years later, we do not and cannot know.
Actually he wrote all the complaints himself with various sock puppet accounts to drum up sympathy subscribers to his Claytreon
Gotta love it when people say stuff like “[culturally christian concept] is a universal theme”.
I remember once somebody calling “the battle between good and evil” a universal theme but it’s not. It’s very much a Christian view of morality (which they in turn took from Zoroastrianism). Other religions and worldviews don’t think of good and evil as opposing forces in conflict.
Other things that aren’t universal:
The “everyman” as a straight white middle class western man (human experiences are way too varied for any one character to be an “everyman”)
The “nuclear family” of a mom and dad living in a house with just their kids.
