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6/16/2025, 8:41:41 PM
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The reason this trope pops up so much, and not just in Japanese storytelling is that there is a deep seeded genetic memory of the last time this happened. These days no one knows who built the megalithic structures all over the world. We only know that some group of builders were making structures in the dustant past that even now would be hard to replicate. We as humans are still in the process of crawling out of the ditch left by whatever cataclysm wiped out the civilization that built these things.
I think in Japan's case it's a two-fold set of influences. On one hand they may have a deeper cultural appreciation for whatever ancient high civilization used to exist. On the other hand, at the end of a WW2 they saw massive destructive force destroy a lot of what had been built, so there is also a new memory of rebuilding after a catastrophe.
The reason this trope pops up so much, and not just in Japanese storytelling is that there is a deep seeded genetic memory of the last time this happened. These days no one knows who built the megalithic structures all over the world. We only know that some group of builders were making structures in the dustant past that even now would be hard to replicate. We as humans are still in the process of crawling out of the ditch left by whatever cataclysm wiped out the civilization that built these things.
I think in Japan's case it's a two-fold set of influences. On one hand they may have a deeper cultural appreciation for whatever ancient high civilization used to exist. On the other hand, at the end of a WW2 they saw massive destructive force destroy a lot of what had been built, so there is also a new memory of rebuilding after a catastrophe.
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