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Sometimes reading things like this from the Enlightenment period, I wonder how humans can move backwards so much. Within last 100 years we developed atom bomb,
by FrustratedMonky 2y ago
Sometimes reading things like this from the Enlightenment period, I wonder how humans can move backwards so much. Within last 100 years we developed atom bomb, went to moon and yet we can still have the current anti-science religious radicals in the US. They can be driving a car full of technical marvels, and have an iPhone, but still believe in creationism and that the earth is 6000 years old.
Then, see article like this, and realize, people were having some pretty advanced ideas in the 1800's.
- mcculley 2y agoHumanity has not moved backwards. Just more people vulnerable to certain kinds of memes have the ability to publish them to a big audience. Even if we have billions of people believing nonsense, we still have billions moving forward.
- FrustratedMonky 2y agoI worry about when the line gets crossed, when there are more non-science group and outweighs the making-progress group. I'm just surprised that in the modern world, it isn't 99%-1%. In US it is more like 45%(burn the witches) -to- 55%(yeah, I'll take a measles vaccine so my kids don't die).
- zikduruqe 2y ago> people vulnerable to certain kinds of memes That, but also with the vast amount of information at our fingertips, we are finding out how big and complex our societies and world really is. It is too much for some to handle and process, so they like to boil it down into simple terms that make sense to them. Hence, conspiracy theories and memes.