I am of course speaking on a much, much grander scale.
The pagan european view is that time is a cycle, which is of course congruent with the four seasons present in europe, and other concepts like reincarnation apply in the same way, with a rebirth of the man just as nature "Dies" in winter and is "Reborn" come spring.
Now the semitic view (And this includes christianity) is that time is simply always going, it started and it will continue until the end. This is of course congruent with the desert, same season, same weather all the time. It is one continual thread of time
i am also asking this to ask another question :
Do you believe in ages? will this age of technology and "democracy" ever go away? will we ever retvrn to tribes, then to monarchies?
Will people some "Ages" from now, perhaps after civilizations collapse, live as we did 500? 1000 years ago? Will people in the future again be ruled by kings, with no access to modern technologies, or is the world truly only as long as we have documented?
Some people are already waking up to notice the negative impacts (((social media))) have on them.