My lecture on Monday really made me think about something, and that's always a good sign when you're paying thousands of pounds to get an education in University.
We first started discussing ages within my group, as in which decade we were born in and whatnot, and it got me thinking about ages. What do we consider history, ancient history and mythology?
Is Greek Mythology called that because it was thousands of years ago or because now a days Science has overrun our belief that the Mythological stories told in museums and books may have the slightest slice of truth in them.
Is history made every moment something extraordinary happens, or do we have to wait at least 50 years for it to be considered relevant to the history books?
Thinking about this, what would we be called in hundreds of years? Will our methods of medicine and technology get laughed at by the children of the future when they attend their home school classes with their holographic teachers? It's inevitable that the breakthroughs we are all awed by right now will become as useless as the first stone squared wheel but how far will things go in the future? There are so many questions that can be asked concerning our future and the future of our generations to come.
The scary thought is that everything we write, say and do will soon become mythology one day. I'm sure Hercules, Perseus, Ceaser, Stalin, Hitler, Blackbeard and Thatcher didn't think about becoming hated, loved and subjects of our classroom discussions. Will films be made about the things we have gone through in our time alive? Will Disney still be around to document, in animation and song, the adventures of Princess Diana, with a happier ending? What animals will become extinct? Which literary works will become censured or banned?
I don't know about you my dear readers, but I would love to be able to look down on the world in hundreds of years and smile fondly at their advanced knowledge, the stories they tell about what is our present day ... such an interesting though, don't you think?
