The idea behind Year Zero is that all culture and traditions within a society must be completely destroyed or discarded and a new revolutionary culture must replace it, starting from scratch. All history of a nation or people before Year Zero is deemed largely irrelevant, as it will ideally be purged and replaced from the ground up.
I wonder how many times this has happened, already, in the past. There's a reason why knowledge of ancient languages/architecture hasn't been passed down over the ages. Don't tell me it's because someone burned a random library down. That wouldn't be enough to destroy an entire knowledge of a culture. Hell, the Dogons have passed down their ancient knowledge almost entirely by oral tradition.
All they had going for them was isolation from the rest of the world for thousands of years. Hell, don't even have to get that exotic. Look at China.
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privatepizza ago
'Year Zero' concept -
The idea behind Year Zero is that all culture and traditions within a society must be completely destroyed or discarded and a new revolutionary culture must replace it, starting from scratch. All history of a nation or people before Year Zero is deemed largely irrelevant, as it will ideally be purged and replaced from the ground up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Zero_(political_notion)
TheTrigger ago
I wonder how many times this has happened, already, in the past. There's a reason why knowledge of ancient languages/architecture hasn't been passed down over the ages. Don't tell me it's because someone burned a random library down. That wouldn't be enough to destroy an entire knowledge of a culture. Hell, the Dogons have passed down their ancient knowledge almost entirely by oral tradition.
All they had going for them was isolation from the rest of the world for thousands of years. Hell, don't even have to get that exotic. Look at China.