Which evolves arm in arm with piracy, luckily.

I haven't watched ads or paid for content in like 15 years. Well, most of the time. I do frequent the movies and that at least is paying for content and there's no way to adblock the silver screen.

What do they mean I can't pay in qubluds?!? What else would I pay with?

There are books

Yeah, ton of obsolete media. If there's lack of preservation, there's probably a reason for it.

I daresay there's enough copies of Star Wars that they'll found on hard drives for the unforeseeable future, and even if they weren't, the story isn't lost.

I'm sure all the original copies of the Odyssey have long since perished, but I still heard about Odysseus and the Trojan War growing up.

Literally the entire world is aware of Star Wars, more or less.

They might have, and despite being more than a thousand years from the printing press, they would've been more or less right.

It's a myth that the Library of Alexandria was the only collection and all sorts of information was lost. Sure, there were a lot of books that probably didn't have many, if any, other copies. But for the most part, most of the books in that library had copies in other similar (if not [all] as grand) libraries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria#Historical_background

The Library of Alexandria was not the first library of its kind.[3][12] A long tradition of libraries existed in both Greece and in the ancient Near East.[13][3] The earliest recorded archive of written materials comes from the ancient Sumerian city-state of Uruk in around 3400 BC, when writing had only just begun to develop.[14] Scholarly curation of literary texts began in around 2500 BC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria#Decline

Burning by Julius Caesar

Scholars have interpreted Cassius Dio's wording to indicate that the fire did not actually destroy the entire Library itself, but rather only a warehouse located near the docks being used by the Library to house scrolls.[88][82][8][90] Whatever devastation Caesar's fire may have caused, the Library was evidently not completely destroyed.[88][82][8][90]

I never said Homer authored the stories he wrote.

It's a collection yes, much like the national epic of my country, Finland. Those epics are still considered to be written by the person who actually... wrote them.

It doesn't matter though whether Homer is a single person or many, real or fictional. What matters is that we've not lost the context of the story.

In your argument, it's more like a 1000 years from now people would consider George Lucas to be the creator of the Mandalorian. It wouldn't be correct, but it wouldn't be too far off the mark, and most importantly, nothing important to the context of "what is a light saber" would have been lost.

The point is that writing hadn't even existed too long by the point that we managed to preserve stories to last until modern times.

Our current technology is undeniably far superior, and there are dedicated institutions and people who preserve important information, especially culture. Star Wars is undeniably a part of that.

There is pretty much no situation in which we'd lose the context of what a light saber is, except pretty much the destruction of the entire world, all media wiped out somehow (despite that meaning the destruction of literal nuclear bunkers) and the extinction of anyone who knows about Star Wars.

The scale of destruction would need to be such that humanity itself wouldn't survive it.

It's more than likely that Star Wars will outlive our species.