Randomly Ritualistic
I’ve been watching too much Time Team lately and it is entirely to blame for the following randomness…
Whenever some or other age rolls along that they are discussing they drag experts out of every possible hole they could find them. The further away in time the period, the more outlandish the explanations for some things get, mostly ending up with the word “Ritual”.
Now let’s stick that onto our own time. Let’s forget for a moment that we record every time we pass gas. Let’s assume (and in most cases hope) that this does not pass the test of time and that this digital detritus dies a sorry death on a digital midden. Well alright it gets overwritten and eventually discarded without leaving a trace.
Add 3000 years and assume we haven’t blown ourselves to little tiny bits and even if we have that some of our offspring remains to find our archaeological layers of optical storage devices, old car tyres and plastic shell casings. I wonder whether or not they can tell much difference between our current death cults. I can’t and I’m living among them… They will have to resort to the word “Ritual” an aweful lot, that’s for sure.