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Why do you equate this to being behind? The generational analogy seems perfectly apt, but that doesn't make out outlook worse or less sophisticated than the ot

• mattdeboard 15y ago
  >Why do you equate this to being behind? Because the future is perceived as more advanced than the past, having built on the notions/achievements/etc., of the past. Arrow of time points in one direction. (At least for humans)
  • pavel_lishin 15y ago
    > the future is perceived as more advanced than the past This is a very recent development, and it's still not universal. For the longest time, people believed that things were better in the past, that we are slowly moving away from a golden age, and that things are getting worse. Some concrete examples are the biblical Garden of Eden/Armageddon; beliefs in Atlantis and other mystical places; the admiration for the Greek and Roman times, especially during the dark ages.
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