While I was hunting today there was some old broken dishware (of the antique American kind) mixed up with everything, obnoxiously white triangular pieces of dishware that who even knows how somebody 100 years ago lost their supper plate in a field but I think I found the whole plate and cussed them with every piece. Kept thinking they were nice white arrowheads from a ways off.
Anyways it got me thinking that in a thousand years or three thousand years or whatever, whether it's future people or aliens or who knows maybe evolved raccoons, somebody will probably be looking in that same field for arrowheads and they'll see those pieces of dinner plate and maybe that rusty iron half a mule trailer shoe and be excited for all of it because by that time it'll all be ancient and it's all mixed up together in that field. The same way we're excited for a 4000 year old point the same as a 6000 year point and maybe you find them both 10 ft away from each other and are probably too excited to even think about how crazy it is that two objects made by two people living thousands of years apart should be sitting 10 ft from each other, and both those 15 ft away from a piece of 1800s dishware.
And from this future person's perspective we'll probably be in the books as just another group of humans who lived here after pushing out the people who were already living here, who pushed out the group before them and before them and so on. Just like we don't really appreciate (well I don't, yall probably do) that people were living where we're hunting and maybe they left or maybe someone drove them out or even killed them all but we still kinda see them as monolithic in a way, and they'd have probably thought they were so different to the group who was there before them and just like we think we're so different to Indians, but if you go far enough into the future everyone in the past pretty much just becomes "the ancient inhabitants" no matter how it is we see it now or this or that group of Indians saw it then.
Anyways I'm thinking I should start listening to music or something while I'm walking the fields so my own brain doesn't drive me crazy. ๐๐๐
Anyways it got me thinking that in a thousand years or three thousand years or whatever, whether it's future people or aliens or who knows maybe evolved raccoons, somebody will probably be looking in that same field for arrowheads and they'll see those pieces of dinner plate and maybe that rusty iron half a mule trailer shoe and be excited for all of it because by that time it'll all be ancient and it's all mixed up together in that field. The same way we're excited for a 4000 year old point the same as a 6000 year point and maybe you find them both 10 ft away from each other and are probably too excited to even think about how crazy it is that two objects made by two people living thousands of years apart should be sitting 10 ft from each other, and both those 15 ft away from a piece of 1800s dishware.
And from this future person's perspective we'll probably be in the books as just another group of humans who lived here after pushing out the people who were already living here, who pushed out the group before them and before them and so on. Just like we don't really appreciate (well I don't, yall probably do) that people were living where we're hunting and maybe they left or maybe someone drove them out or even killed them all but we still kinda see them as monolithic in a way, and they'd have probably thought they were so different to the group who was there before them and just like we think we're so different to Indians, but if you go far enough into the future everyone in the past pretty much just becomes "the ancient inhabitants" no matter how it is we see it now or this or that group of Indians saw it then.
Anyways I'm thinking I should start listening to music or something while I'm walking the fields so my own brain doesn't drive me crazy. ๐๐๐
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