They Put Them on the Flags

If dragons never existed, why did nations put them on their flags?

The official story says dragons are imaginary.

Fine.

Then Wales and Bhutan become awkward.

The Welsh flag carries Y Ddraig Goch, the red dragon. It is not vague. It is a very specific winged reptilian creature, preserved as a national symbol for centuries and made the official Welsh flag in 1959.

Bhutan is worse. Its national flag carries the Druk, the Thunder Dragon, and the dragon is so central to the country that Bhutan is literally the Land of the Thunder Dragon.

So that is already two modern nations, thousands of miles apart, both preserving dragons as state symbols.

We are told this is coincidence.

Of course.

The pattern does not stop there.

The Qing dynasty used the Yellow Dragon Flag as a state flag.

Cardiff uses a city flag with a red dragon.

At this point the ape explanation becomes strained. Apparently multiple societies, separated by geography and culture, all became deeply attached to the same nonexistent animal.

No Asteroid proposes a simpler answer.

These are not inventions.

They are memories.

Not clear memories. Not technical records. Cultural residue.

When civilizations collapse, archives burn, machines vanish and history rots into legend. But symbols survive. Flags survive especially well, because humans become irrationally attached to them.

So what remains?

A red dragon in Wales.

A white dragon in Bhutan.

A blue dragon in imperial China.

Another red dragon in Cardiff.

The apes forgot the breeders.

But they kept the logo.