What you’ve done in your life time can eventually be condensed into information 

This information can be erased, artifacts of your actions destroyed over the course of history - the memory of you, gone

Now imagine entire civilizations, collections of folks could be removed from the history this way - crazy

creating and destroying; flying cars, roc.camera, july.rocks

This is also the occams razor for the Phantom time conspiracy theory, which the tldr of is the middle years of Rome were made up and the year today is 16something not 2023

Which I first read about in the comic book `The Department of Truth`

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Which I first read about in the comic book `The Department of Truth` https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/the-department-of-truth

got it, have not dug to into the theory, but the point more that before reading and writing was common the date could be installed arbitrarily

True, interesting idea. Herbert Illig and his Phantom Time theory is wrong through based on astronomical observations of the ancients of solar eclipses etc as we can prove when they happened and compare against when it was observed