I understand looking at it that way. I think for me, even within the show, 150,000 years is just such a long time, and there have been so many cultures and stuff that I can't really see an exact line there.
So my way of...looking at it is that yes, we are absolutely similar to the Colonials and the Kobol folks and the Cylons from the original Earth because we are all part of the same cycle and we're all inter-related and complex systems repeat themselves like mathematics and so we end up evolving in the same ways and evolving the same cultural tics simply because, as my favourite line in the whole show says, "All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again."
But I can't see it as a direct parallel. That we wear ties because our ancestors 150,000 years ago did? Or that's why modern western politics resembles their so closely?
Because even if it's AU Times Square, that's still 150,000 years to reach a comparable level of technology, and I know, I totally know I'm overthinking the whole, "it's a metaphor" thing but I can't help it. No civilisation in our entire history has ever lasted even a tiny fraction of that length of time, continuously. Except, perhaps, the stone age aboriginal Australians with their myths of a time when Australia was totally covered in rain forest.
But I totally respect and envy your ability to look at it this way.
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Date: 2009-03-22 01:23 pm (UTC)So my way of...looking at it is that yes, we are absolutely similar to the Colonials and the Kobol folks and the Cylons from the original Earth because we are all part of the same cycle and we're all inter-related and complex systems repeat themselves like mathematics and so we end up evolving in the same ways and evolving the same cultural tics simply because, as my favourite line in the whole show says, "All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again."
But I can't see it as a direct parallel. That we wear ties because our ancestors 150,000 years ago did? Or that's why modern western politics resembles their so closely?
Because even if it's AU Times Square, that's still 150,000 years to reach a comparable level of technology, and I know, I totally know I'm overthinking the whole, "it's a metaphor" thing but I can't help it. No civilisation in our entire history has ever lasted even a tiny fraction of that length of time, continuously. Except, perhaps, the stone age aboriginal Australians with their myths of a time when Australia was totally covered in rain forest.
But I totally respect and envy your ability to look at it this way.