In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls.

Sabia compresses a long history of human narrative into a single visual metaphor: “walls” as the enduring surface on which people record and share stories. The contrast between cave paintings of hunting and social-media posts about Shakespeare highlights both continuity (the impulse to represent experience and culture) and transformation (the technologies and audiences of storytelling). By pairing the prehistoric with Facebook, the line suggests that new media do not replace storytelling so much as re-situate it—changing speed, scale, and social context while preserving the basic human drive to depict, perform, and circulate meaning.