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We live in the most interesting 200 year period of Earth so far in its 4.5B year history Even granting you the anthropocentric premise, the idea that the last
by mellosouls 7y ago
We live in the most interesting 200 year period of Earth so far in its 4.5B year history
Even granting you the anthropocentric premise, the idea that the last 200 years are more interesting than any other similar period is not at all obvious.
- RivieraKid 6y agoThe progress in the last 200 years is completely incomparable with anything prior to that. Per the book Sapiens, the idea of progress is relatively new, people used to believe that things would stay the same or decline.
- mellosouls 6y agoThe progress in the last 200 years is completely incomparable with anything prior to that. Again, rather an unobvious claim. A greater leap than the Industrial Revolution, the Renaissance, the budding of Western Civilisation with the Greeks? Perhaps it is, but unless you have a link to proof of this, it's best not to speak in such dogmatic terms, and accept that this is just a view you hold.