New Knowledge
I just want to share something and rather briefly. I have recently been humbled in the light of the realization of my great ignorance! I am not knowledgable in many things, and this is a good thing to realize!
When it comes to ancient civilization, all along I had thought that the most ancient of civilizations is China, with Greece following close behind. I thought that the French were the most cultured of people and that the Roman empire was overthrown due to internal disease and crumbling!
I didn't know anything about Bulgaria! In fact, all the things I heard about Bulgaria which I believed to be fact, were actually all lies spewed by what I think is envy! The truth is, before all other nations in Europe even had a capital city, Sofia, the capital city of Bulgaria, already existed! Along with the capital city of Greece– they were the only two in existence before all the rest of Europe! That's a very humbling thing to realize, given the fact that I thought France was so culturally "well-cooked"! It's also a humbling thing to learn that the Bulgarian language is equally difficult as Greek, to learn! If not more difficult! I once believed that the Greek language was the cradle of all language, but when we look at the Cyrillic script, first developed by the Bulgarian Empire, we can see quite plainly that it is the mother of the Russian language and all of her diminutives in the world today, including the Slavic languages! Therefore, the Bulgarian Empire is responsible for many of the most difficult languages of the world! Which makes the French language begin to look weak! And the Greek language no longer unparalleled!
I also discovered that the fall of Rome (well, one theory of the fall, as there are many theories of how it came to be) was due to a Bulgarian gladiator! That was back when they were not yet called Bulgarians, but Thracians! I uncovered the fact that Plovdiv, the city of seven hills, in Bulgaria, is 8 THOUSAND years old! EIGHT THOUSAND years ago, Plovdiv was already a thriving culture! That dampens my once lofty opinions of Chinese civilization at 5 thousand years! Plovdiv even has it's own Roman ampitheatre and Roman stadium! It is said that every European ruler who visited Plovdiv didn't want to leave, and left their marks on the city, making a locale that bears the fingerprints of many of the greatest empires.
All I have heard is that people have opinions of the Bulgarians as being "barbarians", meanwhile, the Bulgarians are the ones who have the right to call everyone else barbarians! But then that is culture at it's finest– that it has flew high above the immature levels of name-calling! I am frustrated by the fact that we know so much about the French culture, the Greek culture, the Italian culture, the Spanish culture, the English culture, while possessing such little knowledge of the Bulgarian people! We are bombarded with French and Italian publicity all the time! Yet we remain so ignorant of the Bulgarians! What are they like? Do they dance like the Spanish dance? Do they bake like the French bake? Do they have temples as the Greeks have temples? What is their literature like? Their pottery and their crafts? So many answers are unknown to our modern minds, about this most ancient civilization that is today still thriving and rising! It is not a dying culture, but far from that, it is a nation on the rise! It seems odd that these people wouldn't feel the need to bombard the rest of the world with "what they are all about", when they have been around here for so long already! But like I said, perhaps when culture reaches the highest levels of finesse, there is a lack of the need to brag and boast, to advertise oneself and throw oneself into everyone else's faces! And now I feel like throwing a French cake into someone's face just to express my frustration over my ignorance! I feel like saying "Here! Take all of your cakes, and I'm tired of wearing all your perfume made in Paris!"
“I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.”
― Plato, Apology
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Sofia's subway system (Sofia, Bulgaria)
Sofia, Bulgaria
When it comes to ancient civilization, all along I had thought that the most ancient of civilizations is China, with Greece following close behind. I thought that the French were the most cultured of people and that the Roman empire was overthrown due to internal disease and crumbling!
I didn't know anything about Bulgaria! In fact, all the things I heard about Bulgaria which I believed to be fact, were actually all lies spewed by what I think is envy! The truth is, before all other nations in Europe even had a capital city, Sofia, the capital city of Bulgaria, already existed! Along with the capital city of Greece– they were the only two in existence before all the rest of Europe! That's a very humbling thing to realize, given the fact that I thought France was so culturally "well-cooked"! It's also a humbling thing to learn that the Bulgarian language is equally difficult as Greek, to learn! If not more difficult! I once believed that the Greek language was the cradle of all language, but when we look at the Cyrillic script, first developed by the Bulgarian Empire, we can see quite plainly that it is the mother of the Russian language and all of her diminutives in the world today, including the Slavic languages! Therefore, the Bulgarian Empire is responsible for many of the most difficult languages of the world! Which makes the French language begin to look weak! And the Greek language no longer unparalleled!
I also discovered that the fall of Rome (well, one theory of the fall, as there are many theories of how it came to be) was due to a Bulgarian gladiator! That was back when they were not yet called Bulgarians, but Thracians! I uncovered the fact that Plovdiv, the city of seven hills, in Bulgaria, is 8 THOUSAND years old! EIGHT THOUSAND years ago, Plovdiv was already a thriving culture! That dampens my once lofty opinions of Chinese civilization at 5 thousand years! Plovdiv even has it's own Roman ampitheatre and Roman stadium! It is said that every European ruler who visited Plovdiv didn't want to leave, and left their marks on the city, making a locale that bears the fingerprints of many of the greatest empires.
All I have heard is that people have opinions of the Bulgarians as being "barbarians", meanwhile, the Bulgarians are the ones who have the right to call everyone else barbarians! But then that is culture at it's finest– that it has flew high above the immature levels of name-calling! I am frustrated by the fact that we know so much about the French culture, the Greek culture, the Italian culture, the Spanish culture, the English culture, while possessing such little knowledge of the Bulgarian people! We are bombarded with French and Italian publicity all the time! Yet we remain so ignorant of the Bulgarians! What are they like? Do they dance like the Spanish dance? Do they bake like the French bake? Do they have temples as the Greeks have temples? What is their literature like? Their pottery and their crafts? So many answers are unknown to our modern minds, about this most ancient civilization that is today still thriving and rising! It is not a dying culture, but far from that, it is a nation on the rise! It seems odd that these people wouldn't feel the need to bombard the rest of the world with "what they are all about", when they have been around here for so long already! But like I said, perhaps when culture reaches the highest levels of finesse, there is a lack of the need to brag and boast, to advertise oneself and throw oneself into everyone else's faces! And now I feel like throwing a French cake into someone's face just to express my frustration over my ignorance! I feel like saying "Here! Take all of your cakes, and I'm tired of wearing all your perfume made in Paris!"
“I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.”
― Plato, Apology
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Sofia's subway system (Sofia, Bulgaria)
Sofia, Bulgaria
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