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It might be worth rethinking your notions of 'long term'. Typically, there's a kind of time dilation where things that have happened recently seem both histori
by kingsuper20 5y ago
It might be worth rethinking your notions of 'long term'.
Typically, there's a kind of time dilation where things that have happened recently seem both historically normal and of a longer duration than they really are.
- jerf 5y agoI'm not sure what you're referring to. One of my viewpoints here is the difference between the ancient world, prior to 500AD or so, and today... seems like a long enough baseline to me....
- kingsuper20 5y ago>I'm not sure what you're referring to. In the sense that any modern trend (let's say 1920-2020) isn't old enough to really compare to something that's truly long term. It's to early to say. That, and we all have to deal with Historian's Fallacy. I also have to say that I think that most of the Earth's land surface has more value as real estate (above and below ground) than it has as some sort of tech/people stack. I freely admit that German is less likely to invade France (or France to invade Germany or Russia or Russia or Italy for that matter) in the modern era...assuming that wars are fought for purely profit-seeking motives.