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As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates
socrates is everybody's teacher. he's the first greatest, western philosopher in the the western world. where he too learn his ideas, etc, we don't really know, but i believe we all learn something from someone else before our time, etc, etc, really. perhaps, he was the first philosphers to be recorded. in past, like in the khmer civilization for instance, many great ideas, philosophies, etc weren't recorded, thus only being passed down from word of mouth only. i think that ought to changed in cambodia way from now on and everything about khmer should always be recorded. the khmer angkor civilization was not lack of great ideas, great philosophies, great achievements either, the difference was the khmer rulers never did record it, very little if any written record of their greatness. we learn about the khmer civilization from glimpse into their achievement and greatness by what they left to us(humanity) in great monuments only. that's why i read something said that the khmer civilization did not leave philosophies, great religions, etc to humanity, but for real, the khmer civilization left us all astonished and wonder how in the world they achieved what they achieved. well, the monuments the khmer left us were our only glimpse into their greatness, really. in any great civilization that gave birth to other civilization(i have no doubt the khmer preceded and passed down their great civilization to very litttle of it we know in cambodia, and also gave raised to thailand and laos as a nation as well. so the khmer civilization was indeed always there, but that civilization was being forgotten or not honored or not credited to the raised of another civilization later. just because the khmer civilization didn't really leave recorded history or written history, doesn't mean it never was great, you know. we all know it didn't take a weak, uneducated civilization like the khmer to build so many temple and structural monuments we see scattered all over mainland southeast asia. some biased people or biased scholar or enemies of the khmer empire might want to deny the fact the khmer civilization existed at all, we know it did exist from 802 well into 15th century. knowledged were probably passed down orally from one generation of rulers to the next, etc then, i believe, for not having written record in khmer by khmer then. no doubt about that, you know.
often the entire world was one big classroom. we all learned from each other one way or another since the dawn of human civilization, you know. some were from written record, some were from oral passing down from one generation to the next, just like what happened in ancient cambodia civilization, really! it indicates that there are numerous ways to record history, not necessarily written, but oral as well, really! in cambodia, oral history were a big part of that equality. why? i think that's because there was at one time a lack of reading culture in cambodia as everyone was too busy tilting the land for the empire, they see no need for written education or written record, simply oral record was easier to maintain than written record which in khmer view can be stolen whereas oral record cannot. well, that, just my theory, really. that's how khmer think then. well, it's good to change a bit now by using more written record from now on in cambodia, you know.
when you understand the khmer psyche, you can understand how we think. it doesn't make us wrong or right, just different, really. whether you prefer that method or not is the difference in technicality only. the ideas and concept were all same, you know.
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