<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The next carrier of Greek memory will not... > The next carrier of Greek memory will not necessarily resemble a monument, a library, or a classroom. Increasingly, a person will ask an intelligent system what Athens was, why the Parthenon matters, what democracy demanded of its citizens, and which Greek questions remain unsettled. The system will choose records, compress disagreements, explain relationships, and decide what seems central enough to include. {{The Parthenon could stand for another thousand years while the meaning of Athens disappears from the machines that teach the world its history. The survival of stone does not guarantee the survival of a civilization.}} [[reminders/Neo-Westernism/The Parthenon Could Survive While Athens Disappears from Machine Memory by Bryant McGill|∴]] [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] is my account of why the machine that explains an archive becomes part of the archive's custody. **Source:** [[articles/America's Neo-Western Renewal from the Acropolis of Athens to Eternity|America's Neo-Western Renewal from the Acropolis of Athens to Eternity]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The next carrier of Greek memory will not necessarily resemble a monument, a library, or a classroom. Increasingly, a person will ask an intelligent system what Athens was, why the Parthenon matters, what democracy demanded of its citizens, and which Greek questions remain unsettled. The system will choose records, compress disagreements, explain relationships, and decide what seems central enough to include. The Parthenon could stand for another thousand years while the meaning of Athens disappears from the machines that teach the world its history. The survival of stone does not guarantee the survival of a civilization. ∴ Authorship of the West is my account of why the machine that explains an archive becomes part of the archive's custody.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-next-carrier-greek-part-archives-custody ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->