It's so interesting that you say humanity is not necessarily moving forward. I have been thinking this for a while, that it's obvious that music, art (visual), literature, it's all become completely broadened and diluted. I point to Shakespeare, to classical music, even the "popular" stuff, to (obvious) Renaissance art. There is no way m…
It's so interesting that you say humanity is not necessarily moving forward. I have been thinking this for a while, that it's obvious that music, art (visual), literature, it's all become completely broadened and diluted. I point to Shakespeare, to classical music, even the "popular" stuff, to (obvious) Renaissance art. There is no way most people do even appreciate this stuff, anymore, much less like it.
"Assuming these well educated people aren’t stupid, we must assume they have some motive for so egregiously ignoring both logic and reason.
"To demonstrate, if you were to hand me an apple right now, and I were to deny the very existence of the apple you just handed to me no matter how much you protested that you clearly just handed me an apple, this would be akin to the stance that the scientific community takes on data that clearly alters the accepted story." Great. Reason shows that they are either holding it back or they are not smart.
"Reason shows that they are either holding it back or they are not smart." Either or both. Depends with whom you're speaking.
We're not moving forward. We're being kept from moving forward. In a set amount of time we have x number of "advancements," which are really just old tech that's been doled back out to us, framed as "advancements."
It was already ours and was removed from our possession. And by the time we get to about the edge of where it would be difficult to control us because we start figuring it all out, there is some "cataclysmic event," we start back with less than what we had in the beginning, and we're never given back as much as we had the time before.
So we're in a constant incremental downward spiral of devolution. And you can look at not just our past tech and see that, but you can also see it in the fossil record. Areas known for certain crafts will have better examples of those crafts in the fossil record the deeper you look into the earth. That shouldn't be so, but it absolutely is.
It's so interesting that you say humanity is not necessarily moving forward. I have been thinking this for a while, that it's obvious that music, art (visual), literature, it's all become completely broadened and diluted. I point to Shakespeare, to classical music, even the "popular" stuff, to (obvious) Renaissance art. There is no way most people do even appreciate this stuff, anymore, much less like it.
"Assuming these well educated people aren’t stupid, we must assume they have some motive for so egregiously ignoring both logic and reason.
"To demonstrate, if you were to hand me an apple right now, and I were to deny the very existence of the apple you just handed to me no matter how much you protested that you clearly just handed me an apple, this would be akin to the stance that the scientific community takes on data that clearly alters the accepted story." Great. Reason shows that they are either holding it back or they are not smart.
"Reason shows that they are either holding it back or they are not smart." Either or both. Depends with whom you're speaking.
We're not moving forward. We're being kept from moving forward. In a set amount of time we have x number of "advancements," which are really just old tech that's been doled back out to us, framed as "advancements."
It was already ours and was removed from our possession. And by the time we get to about the edge of where it would be difficult to control us because we start figuring it all out, there is some "cataclysmic event," we start back with less than what we had in the beginning, and we're never given back as much as we had the time before.
So we're in a constant incremental downward spiral of devolution. And you can look at not just our past tech and see that, but you can also see it in the fossil record. Areas known for certain crafts will have better examples of those crafts in the fossil record the deeper you look into the earth. That shouldn't be so, but it absolutely is.