A Calendar for the Year 12,017 – Limited Edition. Secret Patron Version (Patreon)

Dear Patrons. We did something special and since it is limited we want to let you know two days in advance. (We trust you that you don’t post this anywhere on social media until Wednesday.) 

So in two days a new video will be out. The topic is „A new history for humanity“. It is about a new year 0 for our history. A new way to think about the collective past of our species. 

The fact that we live in the year 2000+ always rubbed me the wrong way. From a historic perspective, 2000 years ago is a weird time to start a counting years. The roman empire already existed for hundreds of years, the pyramids were already thousands of years old. And human development had kicked of much earlier when agriculture started. 

Also the whole BC and AD part makes thinking about history unnecessarily hard. And of course it is very western centric.

So based on the holocene calendar we created a new year 0 for humanity. 12,000 years ago. We don’t need to create new months or days for that – we can simply add 10,000 years to our calendar. This makes our current year the year 12,016.

Doesn’t this feel very different and more special? Isn’t our journey as a collective much more impressive? If we start counting 12,000 years ago instead of 2,000 years ago the process we made is much, MUCH more impressive. Living in the year 12,016 is also so much cooler than the year 2016.

I don’t want to spoil the video for you so I won’t talk about the reason we put the year 0 where we put it. It will make a lot of sense once you see it in two days, promise! 

ANYWAYS! We did something new: 

We produced a calendar for the year 12,017. Fully illustrated, on high quality paper and with some neat facts about human development. Days and months are just like a regular 2017 calendar so you can actually use it too. Illustrations are made in a way that you can cut them out if you so desire.

Producing it was a scary high financial investment so we only did a limited run. When it is gone, it is gone (if contrary to our expectations demand is extremely high we might produce a second run. But for now I think that once this is sold out, this will be it.) 

That’s why we are telling you two days in advance because you are our biggest supporters and we want you guys to have one if you want one.

You can order it here at https://store.dftba.com/products/human-era-calendar

It is $25 and it will arrive in time for christmas! 

As always, thanks for your support and we sincerely hope this will be a regular thing in the future and we might reframe history a tiny bit : )

-Philipp

Edit: Unfortunately we had to produce the thing in the US (made sense because most of our viewers live in North America) so shipping to Europe is not sadly not exactly cheap.