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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (Television Executive)") wrote:
But the point, regardless of how specific I'm able to get, is that people have not changed significantly for as long as we have records.
Our goals and hopes and studies and stories and diversions and play and rituals and all of that, the details change -- the specifics, the names, the methods even -- but the acts remain largely the same.
Thousands of years ago, the people we'd call Ancient Egyptians were studying and restoring the monuments of their ancestors thousands of years removed from them.
Nearly 2,000 years ago, people were writing stories about traveling to the moon and participating in interplanetary colonialism, and also engaging themselves in lampooning the popular culture of their day ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story )
We were making toys and playing board games and just generally being people.