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Good. Every time we forget the old world, we reinvent it better
by seydor 3y ago
Good. Every time we forget the old world, we reinvent it better
- gadflyinyoureye 3y agoThat is so true. Use to be that slaves knew they were slaves. We’re much better at hiding that.
- chriswait 3y agoIf this wasn’t true, we couldn’t know it.
- discussDev 3y agoOr we think we do, giving ourselves a much needed boost to ego and letting the cycle continue and keep everyone happy. Always assuming that we have made things "simple" because we know our way and not someone else's etc. That being said there's a lot of progress in the end but we take a lot of steps backwards to get there.
- nemo 3y ago>Every time we forget the old world, we reinvent it better Historically that has not been the case for most of human history. As odd as it might seem, in general the rediscovery of the accomplishments ancient world has been a great driver towards progress. The periods when the accomplishments of the past were lost and fully forgotten were the sorts of times people call Dark Ages.
- eep_social 3y agoAre we currently in a Digital Dark Age because the pace of content creation has far outstripped our ability to preserve that content for posterity? Obviously we can’t be sure how the current era will be viewed from the far future, but your comment made me realize that the current situation has similarities to that dark age.
- justrealist 3y agoActually the cities that are the most modern and progress-oriented today are the ones that felt comfortable bulldozing all relics of the past. (or the ones where the "old city" was destroyed in brutal urban warfare)
- nemo 3y agoResponding to a statement about "for most of human history" with a reference to a very recent event isn't something you should begin with "actually" since it's not a reply to what I was saying, it's just your own tangent. Also, actually, even in the early modern period people were still looking to the past for inspiration even when they were reusing land - there's far more to the past than mere buildings.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoYou mean the cities that are most expensive and worst to live in, because they didn't have relics of the past putting brakes on the greed of real estate owners and developers?
- justrealist 3y agoThis is word salad.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoLet me simplify then: modern cities suck. They're soul-crushing, sad places to live in. A lot of that has to do with modern construction and economic philosophy which you so praise.
- Moldoteck 3y agoGod thanks that not all cities are oriented to be most modern and progress oriented and some just optimize for livability and comfort
- nomel 3y agoIt's not reinvented, it's iterated, knowingly or not. And, you can only move towards optimization by knowing your derivative.
- wwweston 3y agoHaving forgotten the old world, how would we know?
- jrh3 3y agoEach generation thinks they are so much smarter than the previous.
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- izzydata 3y ago"Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it" - George Santayana
- seydor 3y agoThose who remember it keep repeating it alright