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17483368 No.17483368 [Reply] [Original]

What’s the greatest human invention; the wheel or the pen?

>> No.17483380

The pen is able to carry ideas faster and farther than the wheel ever could, so I would say the pen

>> No.17483391
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17483391

>>17483368

>> No.17483398

>>17483368
Africans never invented the wheel until colonisation.

>> No.17483399

the wheel obviously? how is this even a question? there are other tools that can do the job of a pen, the whee. is invaluable to civilization

>> No.17483408

>>17483368
Fire you fucking retard

>> No.17483416

the pen is used in a medium of exchange where symbols are written down, like in the hieroglyphics, and how inefficient it would be to draw an apple, and each persons unique drawn apple is not fungible, so instead if we think of the apple as a letter there would be too many letters, so we need combinations of letters to reach a hieroglyphic or image, i think the greatest human invention is the penis

>> No.17483418

>>17483408
Fire isn't an invention

>> No.17483422

>>17483368

> Not using clay tablets.

>> No.17483548

>>17483368
>>17483380
>>17483399
>>17483408
Irrigation

>> No.17483552

Chili dogs

>> No.17483562

>>17483368
the dakimakura

>> No.17483597

>>17483368
homosexuality

>> No.17483609

>>17483368
>>17483399
>>17483408

It's agriculture, you assholes.

>>17483548

The judges have accepted your answer, though it was a tight margni.

>> No.17483644

>>17483399
The Incas didn't use the wheel for anything other than children's toys, but they built an empire.
Then the white man came and forced them to use wheels, and all their stuff rolled down Machu Picchu and broke.

>> No.17483772

>>17483644
The Inca are outliers, they didn't even have currency or writing

>> No.17483897

>>17483368
The sounding rod.

>> No.17484434

>>17483368
the pen is dogshit and ruined culture. it's also not very particular because you can use anything to make markings. cheap paper and mass communication, equally ruinous, are more fitting for this type.

>>17483609
agriculture is bad though. malnourished subhuman bootlicking masses were born from it. peak culture is pastoralism.

>>17483772
didn't they store data in rope patterns or something? apparently a once common method. culture shouldn't be stored like economic data, that is debasing, it should be held in the living heart of a people and spoken to one's children. also currency is degenerate but that's not the reason they didn't have it, their economy was different (communistic) so it never came about.

>> No.17484476

>>17484434
>culture shouldn't be stored like economic data, that is debasing, it should be held in the living heart of a people and spoken to one's children.
YOU ARE ON 4CHAN NIGGER
I COULD WEAVE A SLEEPING BAG FOR THE JANNY OUT OF THIS QUANTITY OF LARP
YOUR """"""PEOPLE"""""" ARE 7 NEETS THAT CALL YOU A FAGGOT EVERY DAY

>> No.17484517

>>17483368
You misused that semicolon anon; I am disappointed.

>> No.17484632
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>>17483368
Pens do one fucking thing. Wheels are everywhere. You can make a pen out of a wheel, you can't make a wheel out of a pen.

The wheel and the understanding of rounded surfaces is the most important thing that humans ever accomplished in early times. Every other technology in existence uses some sort of rounded surface in its construction.

>> No.17484649

>>17484476
not LARPing. i'm selfaware and able to criticise my own culture and time. truth cares nothing for the conditions i was born to. it's you who must block his ears and deny.

>> No.17484673

>>17484476
faggot

>> No.17484723
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>>17483368
The greatest invention was reverse cowgirl.

>> No.17484740

>>17484723
based butthole appreciator

>> No.17485012

the Gun

>> No.17485020

>>17484632
>you can't make a wheel out of a pen
bruh just break off the pocket clip

>> No.17485292

>>17483408
Fire was discovered mate

>> No.17485354

>>17483368
unironically define greatest

>> No.17485368

>>17483368
The screw cutting lathe.

>> No.17485381

>>17483368
Murder

>> No.17485389

>>17483398
Did they ever invent the pen though?

>> No.17485418

>>17483368
sneed