It is that it is not so simple to understand globally:
(I like the quote below, it explains the telescoping well)
François Mitterrand wrote:"Everything that changes, everything that has changed somewhere in the world has repercussions elsewhere in a drag, a chain of successive reactions and adaptations. And no one is immune. "
Phrase that I put in the title of an exam work.
Christophe wrote:Jean Fourastié wrote:"Compared to the duration of an individual, the past duration of our humanity would make that
our humanity today would be ten years old. "
What is this gibberish ????
Ok by reading the following points we understand the analogy.
He had probably wanted to make a metaphor, rather? It was the appreciation of this question seen by an economist raised by parents born in the 19
nd century. It resembles the chronology made on the origin of life on Earth by reducing it to 24:00 (if we take the angle of Darwinism)
http://www.astronoo.com/fr/articles/histoire-terre.html (I had seen another representation, but I can't find it anymore.)