Heraclitus

Heraclitus said; “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man”. Is Britain today the same country as it was last year, the same as it was in 1950, 1450 or in 650. The observer also is not the man he was yesterday or 30 years ago. If the people living in a country or observing it are in constant flux why should anyone worry about change?

Why should the Hawaiians of 1850 or the English of 1850 if they could look back from the present object to the differing deaths by change of their countries? Has anything been lost by the fact that they no longer exist? Do their countries perhaps still exist in the eye of eternity?

The Britain of 1950 mutated into something different day by day without the change being detectable. But still there is continuity in Britain just as there would be with an individual born in 1950. The continuity is memory and history of what was once and will not be so again. The timeline is like a cable tying the years together like beads on a necklace.