Sep 1, 2015

“Way back in human history, during the era known as the twentieth-century CE, humans had a primitive form of entertainment. Dramas were performed and recorded then shared with an audience through a variety of means.” The hologram smiled condescendingly. “They were restricted to the senses of hearing and sight and had no emotional input.”

‘Television and movies. He’s talking about television and movies like they were hieroglyphs,’ thought Rowan.

I often wonder what our descendants will think of us. In Tinker’s Plague, another of my novels, they blamed us for the mess we left them. Having studied several ancient cultures I will say that the view of them as primitive is erroneous. They may have lacked some advancement in materials technology but what they did with what they had was amazing.

That said I must say I am not fond of Rome. Being I reincarnationist I am fond of saying that I didn’t like it when I followed Pyrrhus, and I still don’t like Rome. They were of course brilliant civil engineers and came up with the concept of total war, much to their shame and all our loss.

I am very fond of the Egyptians, the Celts and the Norse. All of these were cultures of greatness vastly superior to many cultures that followed them. At least in my opinion.

In Cloning Freedom I have people who view us in a verity of ways. I think it is safe to say that no one would want to have lived during the gene wars, history didn’t leap over the years between now and the now of the book. Looking back I’m sure Ryan can see glories and tragedies. Most people have a good take on the early 21st century from the E-entertainments and those who like repeats will have been exposed to other time periods. That said the view they do have is skewed like many peoples knowledge of WW2 because the entertainment industry is not a faithful reporter of history.