<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The Western inheritance reached America through... > The Western inheritance reached America through centuries of transfer rather than by a direct shipment from Athens. Rubio moved from the Parthenon to European cathedrals, art, astronomy, navigation, and finally Apollo 11. Each change of medium and place altered what could be made from the earlier achievement. The reason the sequence matters is that the next transfer into machine-mediated memory belongs to the same history of carrying, recomposing, and extending a civilization's questions. **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 Western inheritance reached America through centuries of transfer rather than by a direct shipment from Athens. Rubio moved from the Parthenon to European cathedrals, art, astronomy, navigation, and finally Apollo 11. Each change of medium and place altered what could be made from the earlier achievement. The reason the sequence matters is that the next transfer into machine-mediated memory belongs to the same history of carrying, recomposing, and extending a civilization's questions.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-western-inheritance-reached-extending-civilizations-questions ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->