so what exactly is the utility of people a few centuries in the future "understanding our culture"? they will have absolutely nothing new to learn from us, because all they would learn is something they will already know: that we are a loathsome and repulsive lot who did nothing but eat one another's regurgitated filth or shoot each other with guns
whether they know our jokes or not will never matter, and i hope for their sake they never get to see this chapter of history other than something to view with utter disdain
Utility is a strange requirement for a hobby.
Perhaps seeing the consistency of humor across time will bring a sense of kinship, like how we can be amused by the fact that the Assyrians had fart jokes. Perhaps seeing a vast difference in circumstances will allow those of a privileged future to feel a sense of gratitude for their own, superior circumstances.
Or perhaps, someone in the year 2326 will have an idle moment of curiosity about what kind of things people in the year 2026 talked about with strangers on the internet, and they will experience a single moment of satisfaction when they can get their question answered.
That seems like more than enough reason for something like this to "matter."
