Less than 200 years. That's a couple handfuls of generations. We didn't even know there was a "galaxy" in the sense of there being other galaxies until Hubble. And we didn't know their were billions of *visible* galaxies ... until Hubble!
So we wonder why people are rustled. Alvin Toffler called it "future shock" -- the future happens too fast for human groups to digest it. This was back in the 60's. It creates disorientation, or what Durkheim, 100 years early in the 19th century, called "anomie" -- a feeling of normlessness. Confusion happens when people do not know which way is up.
SO just, you know, pop in an 8-Track of Europe 72, and just realize, all this fury? Your youth and your best mind is passing by, and you are thinking some boogie man gonna get us. It ain't gonna happen man. You just got some bad acid.
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