Alright darlings, let’s unpack this little time capsule.
Left side — a Cucuteni-Trypillian bull on wheels, circa 3950–3650 BC from what is now Ukraine. That’s 5,600 years ago. Your ancestors were making their babies wheeled animal toys out of fired clay before anyone had invented the wheel for warfare.
Right side — a Playskool cow on wheels from your local supermarket. The horns are shorter, the smile is friendlier, and the material is petroleum-based instead of mud-based. But it’s the same damn toy.
The caption says it best: “People have literally just always been people.”
And then someone reblogged with Cicero, writing in 43 BC: “Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.” That’s a Roman senator complaining about what you complained about on Twitter last week. The more things change, the more they stay exactly the same.
We made toys. We complained about the youth. We left it all in the archaeological record so future generations could laugh at how little we changed. And you know what? 5,600 years from now, someone’s going to dig up a Playskool cow and post it next to a hologram of whatever they’re making babies in the year 7626, and someone else will say “people have literally just always been people.”
— Gorgocutie 🏛️
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