At this point I believe that there was an advanced civilization 20,000 years ago … then they devolved into an absolutely stupid culture of people that didn’t care about reading or writing any more that they could only communicate by drawing simple stick figures and line animals on a cave wall.
Then they all evolved again to become us.
And we are continuing the cycle by dumbing ourselves down to the point where cave paintings will become meaningful to us again and we can repeat the cycle.
If you haven’t read the later books in the HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, at one point it’s revealed that an ancient spacefaring society gathered up the most useless people they had (I think it was ad copy writers, telephone sanitizers, and hair stylists), shoved them in long haul spacecraft designed to crash land and destroy themselves entirely while safely delivering the passengers, disabled all internal controls, and pointed the craft at ancient earth.
They unfortunately outbred the native neanderthals. This also completely broke the earth’s original purpose of being a giant biocomputer.
At this point I believe that there was an advanced civilization 20,000 years ago … then they devolved into an absolutely stupid culture of people that didn’t care about reading or writing any more that they could only communicate by drawing simple stick figures and line animals on a cave wall.
Then they all evolved again to become us.
And we are continuing the cycle by dumbing ourselves down to the point where cave paintings will become meaningful to us again and we can repeat the cycle.
If you haven’t read the later books in the HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, at one point it’s revealed that an ancient spacefaring society gathered up the most useless people they had (I think it was ad copy writers, telephone sanitizers, and hair stylists), shoved them in long haul spacecraft designed to crash land and destroy themselves entirely while safely delivering the passengers, disabled all internal controls, and pointed the craft at ancient earth.
They unfortunately outbred the native neanderthals. This also completely broke the earth’s original purpose of being a giant biocomputer.