pusselbiten

I fear we have become unbearably arrogant.
Confident as gods in the technological progress we have made,

we scoff at the men and women who were our ancestors.

Oh, we admire the Pyramids, the Parthenon, the Great Wall of China.

We marvel at the cave drawings and sculptured bison in the Paleolithic caves of France.
We delight in achievements and say, “I wonder how they managed that with the technology of their time.”

In essence, we are patronizing them; we consider ourselves superior.

We deny the full spectrum of what they themselves believed in.

We do not seek to understand them, these people who were our forefathers;

we do not seek to discover why they made the choices they did,

what they had seen, what knowledge they possessed that was different from our own.

It is from our own standpoint that we try to reach them, ever judgmental.
We deny their world, and try to refashion and study it based on our own.

What nonsense!

—knowledge accumulated over millennia
becomes trivialized and people wind up living in fairy
tales.