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Yesterday I was thinking about the same topic. I fear that an attempt to rebuild civilization will lead us to the same mistakes we had made until now. History

Yesterday I was thinking about the same topic. I fear that an attempt to rebuild civilization will lead us to the same mistakes we had made until now. History has shown that nobody learns from it.

walterbell 5y ago
Perhaps the first book should be on historical mistakes to be avoided..
- eimrine 5y ago
  Why? Nobody will learn from it anything.
  - walterbell 5y ago
    That depends on which specific humans may survive to constitute post-civilization society.
    - eimrine 5y ago
      Also that depends on numerous circumstances while author of the historical mistakes book doing his job. Was the reason of the collaps coming from military conflict? If yes, was that author a winning side of conflict or loosing one or he was enough lucky to stay neytral? Some things will be overexposed or overhidden in any branch. Was that from global heating? Maybe from deadly virus? From AI? What has been braken, maybe something not important? Maybe the reader is dealing with collaps of fossil energy industry (no cars, no warm houses and no bitcoin mining, but more important things like science is still there?). Maybe some kind of AI starts being our new government while the half-beaten previous one claims that we need to conquer the AI while in reality it is better government then previous? Has the author finished his book or died on half-word? How much has the world recovered from the disaster on the moment the book went into right hands - is reader sitting in a bunker or is he is still able to grow foods on his land or is he drifting across a submerged planet like Kevin Costner's character? Last but not least - if you are destined to be the author of such a fateful book, how can you be sure to describe things both correctly and understandable for your reader?
      - walterbell 5y ago
        Hopefully the author would cover more than the past century of avoidable mistakes from human history. As for clarity, the Quora thread mentions How Things Work by Roger Jean Segalat, as a positive precedent, https://bibliohaven.com/products/how-things-work?variant=32651277336630 https://bibliohaven.com/products/how-things-work?variant=326...

Yesterday I was thinking about the same topic. I fear that an attempt to rebuild civilization will lead us to the same mistakes we had made until now. History has shown that nobody learns from it.

walterbell 5y ago

Perhaps the first book should be on historical mistakes to be avoided..

eimrine 5y ago
Why? Nobody will learn from it anything.
- walterbell 5y ago
  That depends on which specific humans may survive to constitute post-civilization society.
  - eimrine 5y ago
    Also that depends on numerous circumstances while author of the historical mistakes book doing his job. Was the reason of the collaps coming from military conflict? If yes, was that author a winning side of conflict or loosing one or he was enough lucky to stay neytral? Some things will be overexposed or overhidden in any branch. Was that from global heating? Maybe from deadly virus? From AI? What has been braken, maybe something not important? Maybe the reader is dealing with collaps of fossil energy industry (no cars, no warm houses and no bitcoin mining, but more important things like science is still there?). Maybe some kind of AI starts being our new government while the half-beaten previous one claims that we need to conquer the AI while in reality it is better government then previous? Has the author finished his book or died on half-word? How much has the world recovered from the disaster on the moment the book went into right hands - is reader sitting in a bunker or is he is still able to grow foods on his land or is he drifting across a submerged planet like Kevin Costner's character? Last but not least - if you are destined to be the author of such a fateful book, how can you be sure to describe things both correctly and understandable for your reader?
    - walterbell 5y ago
      Hopefully the author would cover more than the past century of avoidable mistakes from human history. As for clarity, the Quora thread mentions How Things Work by Roger Jean Segalat, as a positive precedent, https://bibliohaven.com/products/how-things-work?variant=32651277336630 https://bibliohaven.com/products/how-things-work?variant=326...