Have you seen the movie ‘10,000 BC’? Many critics dismissed it as rather superficial. And maybe it was, but there were a few things about it I found deeply intriguing.
There was the reference to Atlantis and the Atlanteans that was so brief that I had to pause the movie and go frame by frame over a shot of a map in the movie. The movie dared not say it outright but it’s historical background was in fact a post-Atlantis recreation decidedly based on the work of many non-traditional historians.
But that is not why I am blogging here. There was a line in the movie that totally caught me. Again, I paused and rewound the movie in order to write it out. Here it is:
“A good man draws a circle around himself and cares for those within– his women, his children. Other men draw a larger circle and bring within their brothers and sisters. But some men have a great destiny. They must draw around themselves a circle that includes many many more. Your father was one of those men. You must decide for yourself if you are as well.”
