The repetition of the experiences people share together reminded me of our version of their way of thinking, a.k.a. "shared trauma". Most of the time, with nation-wide known events or with large natural disasters, many of the people who went through the same event seek each other out as their experience is something they'd only understand, sometimes even in places of therapeutic sessions.

This idea of the Babylonians trying to split up land ownership with rectangles reminds me of how cities in America were divided when first being built. Places like Manhattan, NY were built on a grid system with avenues splitting up the city East and West.