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I learned recently, via a Tolkien biography, that this is the Medieval view of the world - that things are always getting worse.
by farleykr 4y ago
I 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...