Humans, we’re not good with time. Let me qualify that: we’re good with short time, like how long until lunch or how long ago did the Mets win the World Series. Usually, if something happened within your lifetime, the conceptualization of that duration of time isn’t too bad. Even when you get older and it seems like 1995 wasn’t 30 years ago, you still can wrap your head around the fact that idea.
When time gets longer, things get harder. What was happening in your home town 100 years ago? That is only looking back to 1925. There are still people alive who were born before 1925. We had car, planes, vaccines – all features of modern society. Things were different, but not unrecognizably so.
How about 1,000 years ago? That would be 1025 CE. Any idea what was going on then? If you’re like me in the American Midwest, ...
