For some unheard-of reason, human beings are prone to treasure and on occasion take in random useless knowledge. These useless knowledge facts is the result of a millenium of fact assembling and organisation performed by people all over the Earth. Our attraction to random useless knowledge may be just as much a byproduct of our own existential urge to amass facts to help us discover ourselves within that world. Our identity may very well endure in the immeasurable knowledge accumulated since the start of published humanlike culture.
While we are oftentimes confused about the significance of these bits of knowledge, we are also driven by them. Lists of these factoids have been accumulated for ages. Even in modern times, we see them in tomes like “Guinness World Records”, whose publication has arrived in the hands of many hundreds of thousands members of our species. Within these listings, we find that our own different worries and neuroses aren’t so peculiar. This provides us with a level of ease that may help us continue going in the style we have become used to.
If we inhabited a planet whose goals and needs were not compiled, our our own enduring spirit might also be mangled by the ticking clock of time.