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I sometimes compare this to the seemingly ever rising absurdity of life/business/politics etc. "The Shepard tone of insanity" Things seem to perpetually get w
by mvdwoord 4y ago
I sometimes compare this to the seemingly ever rising absurdity of life/business/politics etc.
"The Shepard tone of insanity"
Things seem to perpetually get worse in some way, or so it seems. But often it just appears that way due to similar mechanisms of newly introduced stupidity. Or something like that.
- farleykr 4y agoI learned recently, via a Tolkien biography, that this is the Medieval view of the world - that things are always getting worse.
- knodi123 4y agoYeah, I call that the fallen world fallacy. Once you recognize the basic concept, you start to see it everywhere. Atlantis was some amazing civilization that did everything right, but then some corrupt stinker spread his corrupt ideas it and it fell. The Garden of Eden was perfect, and some schmuck ruined it, and things immediately started to suck, and continued to suck more the further we got from it. Etc etc. These are the underpinnings to so many independent world cultures. It's fascinating. I wonder if it's just inherent to human minds? Or if it's a natural consequence of how we start off as infants having everything taken care of for us, in a world where everyone we know has a defined role and mostly sticks to it, and then as we grow, we find more and more responsibility, and opportunity to make mistakes, and we learn that adults are just fallible humans like us...
- WorldPeas 4y agoIn my personal view, I think the reason this mindset exists is that humanity never solves all problems at once. We're constantly playing a game of marco-polo crossed with whack-a-mole. Sure we may never solve all of our problems, but that's the fun of being a human.