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I have a friend who is a professor of history. He jokes that human history is basically us creating systems to solve problems, then time passes and we remove t
by mr_00ff00 3y ago
I have a friend who is a professor of history. He jokes that human history is basically us creating systems to solve problems, then time passes and we remove those systems causes “those types of problems never happen.”
Rinse repeat
- caseyohara 3y agoThis seems related to Chesterton's Fence > Chesterton’s Fence is a principle that says change should not be made until the reasoning behind the current state of affairs is understood. It says the rash move, upon coming across a fence, would be to tear it down without understanding why it was put up.
- marcosdumay 3y agoTo be fair, as a general rule, removing the systems makes sense. You don't want to accumulate them forever even after they become useless. But in theory, people are smart, and shouldn't evolve their culture by blind trial and error.