There’s an idea among rulers of the past that their control was necessary and even better for the population than something closer to democracy.
It goes hand-in-hand with using religion as a tool to keep people ignorant and discourage them from learning about the world.
Now that it’s pretty clear which side won and we’re living in the aftermath, do you think it’s an improvement?
Part of me believes that we’re progressing way faster than we’re evolving and nobody is able to keep up with how fast things are changing around them. It seems like the forbidden fruit of knowledge is giving us problems instead of only solving them.
I have this thought experiment I have been running in my head for years now. Don’t read too much into this, it’s just daydreaming.
Essentially, this existence is something that can be experienced from some higher dimension where other beings live. For whatever reason, they choose to enter our dimension and live a full life here before waking back up in their own.
Assuming the ‘me’ that exists here at least resembles the ‘Me’ in that higher dimension, why would I choose to come to this part of human history?
The answer is that I came to witness the height of human civilization and technology before that same technology ends humanity.
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I sincerely hope I’m wrong about that, but the curses of this age have yet to be truly felt in my opinion.
You’re a history buff. Do you think that humanity has ever dealt with a greater concentration of wealth and power?