2/ yeeeep when you're 10 years old, a century is an absolutely VAST period of time when you're 50 years old, a century is close to "when my dad was born until now"https://twitter.com/ctdonath/status/1488656045333430273 …
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Not the same Seuthes that hired Xenophon but a successor. Amazing to think of that connection.
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10,000 years of recorded human history is just 100 hundred-year lifespans back to back. Ten groups of ten. Y’all who have reached 50 know that is a very short timeframe.
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I went through this realization about a year or two ago and it changed so much about how I interpret history.
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Heck, even the detail and beauty in art tens of thousands of years old is striking. (All the more impressive when you consider it's meant to be "animated" by flickering lamplight.) It's wrong to assume the present is above the past. We'll be someone else's ancient past one day...pic.twitter.com/yAJWItsZgQ
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if someone wants to tear down an eighty year old Chesterton's fence it's likely because they hate either their parents, or their grandparents (or both) and can hardly conceal it
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