Comment by MorganVR
7 years ago
The reason for the 10000 years is to make explicit the real magnitud of our history, you would be surprised to learn the number of people that believe it all really started just 2000 years ago.
7 years ago
The reason for the 10000 years is to make explicit the real magnitud of our history, you would be surprised to learn the number of people that believe it all really started just 2000 years ago.
Aboriginal Australians have been documented from 50,000-60,000 [0]
[0] https://theconversation.com/when-did-aboriginal-people-first...
When you begin to look into their stories (dreamtime) and the way they've always lived and more importantly, the way they have passed down information generation to generation, it's utterly remarkable. Yet this 10,000 value would belittle that rich living history imho.
Admittedly 10,000 years ago is roughly the Younger Dryas era, so yes, most history has been lost since before that time, but it does exist nevertheless.
Funny, I was just talking to my son about this as we were reading a book about ancient Egypt and he kept coming back to all the "1200 BC" times as he could not understand the negative years, or the counting down to 0 and the more I think about it, it is kind of weird how we use some arbitrary point in time backwards and forwards. It's almost like we're not really any good at keeping track of time at all. And then to start counting years based on "Jesus" when 90% of the world has never been Christian and never will be, it just seems to presume a whole lot that isn't even there.