The Twilight Zone
Jun. 14th, 2006 07:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealinA REVERSE PERCEPTION OF TIME
Apparently there is a tribe in South America who have an opposite perception of time to the rest of the world, that the future is behind and the past in front. Linguists are not quite sure why yet. No word on if they've tried the Trolls' logic for it...
Apparently there is a tribe in South America who have an opposite perception of time to the rest of the world, that the future is behind and the past in front. Linguists are not quite sure why yet. No word on if they've tried the Trolls' logic for it...
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Date: 2006-06-15 08:26 pm (UTC)Western culture especially sees itself as walking towards the future (drive towards progress, etc.) ... this seems to be based more on what we can see instead of where we're going.
Like the trolls, I suppose, but the Aymarans don't seem to believe we're going backward.
Bet fortune tellers don't make much money in that culture.