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Re: Stargate SG-1
Posted By: Forrest of B.orgDate: 3/16/17 11:17 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Stargate SG-1 (Durandal_1707)

: Well yeah, the idea goes back to the Middle Ages, with the part of the
: advanced ancient race being played by the Roman Empire. Still, though,
: that was only a small part of the list of parallels that I provided.

Even ancient Rome itself and before had legends of a mythic golden age full of superior people of long-since-forgotten skills. The ancient view of history was not one of progress but of decay: the initial world right after creation was the best, and it's been getting worse ever since.

In a way that's kind of what makes science fiction a unique modern genre: it looks forward to times of greater advance than the present, which would be as ridiculous a fantasy to that ancient worldview as the idea of Atlantis of an Elder Race is to us now.

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