Most people don't know is that much of what they believe in is "borrowed" from earlier stories and beliefs that migrated westward with the people that brought them.
I've grown up in a Post-Soviet world and I've always taken this movie seriously. I learned about this movie about the same time in middle school that the concept that we as humanity could end ourselves.
The idea that adults were humans, not forces of nature to be feared or adored,that we can make incredibly poor decisions that we can't take back and that destroy us, all hit home about the same time.
I'm reminded how both very powerful and very helpless we are at the same time. And I try to encourage the people around me to understanding and toward good because that's the only guardrail I can construct.
thank you for re-posting the article about Dr. Finkelstein . an incredible read and the topic of the beginnings of writing is of great interest to me. I have spent countless hours of contemplation on the subject, the beginnings of language for communicating information, then ideas . and that process may be over several millions of years. civilization only beginning maybe 20,000 years with the beginning of settlements. and to consider that settlements were flourishing near 6000, years ago, before people began to consider sending a written message is like setting the date for the beginning of technology .
Most people don't know is that much of what they believe in is "borrowed" from earlier stories and beliefs that migrated westward with the people that brought them.
I've grown up in a Post-Soviet world and I've always taken this movie seriously. I learned about this movie about the same time in middle school that the concept that we as humanity could end ourselves.
The idea that adults were humans, not forces of nature to be feared or adored,that we can make incredibly poor decisions that we can't take back and that destroy us, all hit home about the same time.
I'm reminded how both very powerful and very helpless we are at the same time. And I try to encourage the people around me to understanding and toward good because that's the only guardrail I can construct.
thank you for re-posting the article about Dr. Finkelstein . an incredible read and the topic of the beginnings of writing is of great interest to me. I have spent countless hours of contemplation on the subject, the beginnings of language for communicating information, then ideas . and that process may be over several millions of years. civilization only beginning maybe 20,000 years with the beginning of settlements. and to consider that settlements were flourishing near 6000, years ago, before people began to consider sending a written message is like setting the date for the beginning of technology .
very interesting , indeed !
We know so little and presume so much. the older I get, the more I see what humanity has in common.
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