Annotation - Chapter 14, Page 125

• (125:15) "by the time they done 1997 years they had boats in the air and all them things and here we are weve done 2347 years and mor and stil slogging in the mud?"

Of course Riddley's logic is off, since he doesn't know what A.D. means and thinks human history started from zero. If about 2500 years have passed since humanity was bombed back to something resembling the late Stone Age, then their technological progress is actually about on track with ours, since roughly the same amount of time passed between the original Stone Age and Iron Age in Europe. But even at the dawn of history, people were already developing myths of having come "way way down from what they ben time back way back."