The idea of myth building in our modern age is a bit of an odd one. Welcome to the Clock of the Long Now, currently under construction.
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To reach the clock, you have to hike for a full day, find a jade door hidden on a rock face, open it, and climb a 500-foot circular staircase. Its gears are eight feet in diameter and each weighs a thousand pounds. A clock designed to tick for ten millennia. Dig a hole deep inside a mountain in West Texas, and inside it, build a clock. How do we go back to planting those acorns? How do we make decisions, tangible decisions, for something 10,000 years from now? Can we even think that far? You could try this. It was this type of thinking that very clearly was not going on in our society where something even as simple as planting some acorns that could be leveraged over centuries is not even considered anymore. It wasn't until they spoke to school forester who said, "Oh, we have the trees that you planted." It turns out that 500 years prior when they built the hall, they also planted a grove of oak trees to be harvested 500 years later to replace those.
Most of these trees were gone from all of Europe in fact. They couldn't actually just go buy them anymore in England. It had these huge oak beams over the main dining hall.ĥ00 years later in the 1800s when they had to renovate this hall, these beams had become rotten and they needed to replace them. When New College was built, it wasn't the New College, but it was 1380s that it was built. It's a new year, so let's talk about time.
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