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We might "rediscover" how to do these things, but it will take decades, if not centuries. Knowledge is a desperately tenuous resource and something that can be lost by simply doing nothing. Do you want to wait until 2125 so Americans can remember how to make a good-looking TV show?
I'm not trying to "beat" you with my replies, I'm scared that the point isn't getting across. That's all.
>if some dipshit briton mud farmers can manage to pass information around before printing or phones I'm sure we could have figured it out
It wasn't the mud farmers, it was Northumbrian monks working with the Irish in what is still celebrated as a triumph of British stubbornness. Tiny numbers of the population, keeping critical knowledge alive on parchment.