alt Hacker News> Gilgamesh deserves that
The very moral in Gilgamesh deserves that. "I went in a quest for immortality; I did not achieve it and came back, and while returning I saw in the distance the City I built, and I understood what my immortality was...".
(A "must" of an insight for engineers, architects, builders...)
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otabdeveloper4 • yesterday at 8:06 PM
You're possibly misreading that.
In the Bible the city builder was Cain, and he built it because he was a criminal and needed protection from the world when he lost God's grace.
I.e., the message is that a city is a kind of protective exoskeleton or "safe space" when man becomes estranged from God (the Universe).
It's a story about man's fragility and ultimate futility.
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The longevity of a city is difficult to achieve as an engineer/architect/builder nowadays. One might have better chances as a scientist.