Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-212.56.135.17-20160525143405/@comment-27565137-20160525185740

I think you're overthinking things. Just look at the events.

Civilization came to an end because of technology. Survivors knew something had to have gone incredibly wrong. So it makes sense that they decided to not pass on their knowledge of technology, and only kept the most basic knowledge.

The same goes for the Grounders language. Initially most didn't knew english, and then in the next seasons it seems all grounders knew it all along. Does that makes sense?! None whatsoever.

The technology part makes total sense. People were also more worried in surviving, and of course a lot of knowledge was lost. But still, it clearly shows that the survivors chose to not pass on specific parts of their knowledge.