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For an example without religious polarization, you can look at Nostradamus' ramblings They are completely useless until misattributed in hindsight, until furth
by gammateam 8y ago
For an example without religious polarization, you can look at Nostradamus' ramblings
They are completely useless until misattributed in hindsight, until further reattributed in hindsight to something slightly more coincidentally relevant. 500 years of this so far.
- protomyth 8y agoTruthfully, my original point was that this was a worry of people before technology made it quite a bit easier to govern. I am unaware of any Nostradamus that talks about restrictions of commerce, nor am I talking about the nature of prophecy of Revelations other than restrictions on commerce seemed to be important enough in the ancient mind to specifically call out.