“Beatles 3000”

I am, as I’ve often said, a skeptic about our ability to reconstruct and understand the past.  And the more remote the past, the more skeptical I am.

Not a complete skeptic, of course.

I think we can and do know quite a lot.

But the odds of our having gotten the ancient past exactly right — particularly the attitudes and ideas of those who lived in it — seem to me vanishingly small.

“The past is a foreign country,” wrote L. P. Hartley in 1953.  “They do things differently there.”

In response to my Deseret News column this morning, Bruce Webster, a valued contributor to numerous Interpreter Foundation scripture roundtables, has shared a very, very funny video that makes my point beautifully:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z2vU8M6CYI

Posted from Park City, Utah