The problem is you have to get very primitive. Do you think that given enough time, the wheel would have not been invented everywhere independently? Sure, the same could be said about any technology. But if it wasn't for the west, asia wouldn't even have computers today. If asia was completely isolated on another world, how long might it have taken asia to develop that far....if ever? If it took them another 2,000 years to develop that, would that really make it of any significance? Because a 2,000 year head start on that kind of technology, would make for pretty tremendous differences. It'd be like an alien civilization vs people of the 1950's.
There is however, not much difference between a civilization with a wheel and a civilization without a wheel. As great as the wheel was, it is functionally insignificant on its own. The wheel is also easily copied....all you have to do is see one. If a cave man see's a skyscraper, he can't copy that. If a guy from the 1800's see's a micro processor, he can't copy that. Heck, even the technology that China uses to reverse engineer technology, is technology they have not invented. Much of their advancements came when the US moved manufacturing there, which was a huge mistake, because it gave them direct access to fabrication of technology that they wouldn't have otherwise been able to copy without access to those fabrication processes.
Yeah someone invented the wheel, someone invented algebra, but who utilized it best and built soo far beyond it that the underlying ancient principles behind it, no longer make up the bulk of the credit for modern invention? You can say nothing would exist without the wheel.....but the wheel also wouldn't be much without the benefit of all that came after it. The western world accomplished more in the last 200 years than the asian world accomplished in the last 2,000 years.
But I'm interested, what ideologies are holding us back? I hope you don't mean inclusion. Because that's certainly not what's holding us back, it's what's crushing us by allowing us to be usurped, siphoned from, and crippled. That doesn't mean that countries of the world can't benefit from working together, but when the citizens of countries are usurped within their own borders, that is primarily a one sided deal. If there's any point where the playing field became uneven, it's at least when Bill Clinton gave asia the favored trade partner status that robbed the US of advantages it developed by giving those advantages away. And the US has been suffering the consequences of that for the last 30 years. But the blame is not entirely on Bill Clinton. He was just doing exactly what the Chinese wanted him to do.
The problem is you have to get very primitive. Do you think that given enough time, the wheel would have not been invented everywhere independently? Sure, the same could be said about any technology. But if it wasn't for the west, asia wouldn't even have computers today. If asia was completely isolated on another world, how long might it have taken asia to develop that far....if ever? If it took them another 2,000 years to develop that, would that really make it of any significance? Because a 2,000 year head start on that kind of technology, would make for pretty tremendous differences. It'd be like an alien civilization vs people of the 1950's.
There is however, not much difference between a civilization with a wheel and a civilization without a wheel. As great as the wheel was, it is functionally insignificant on its own. The wheel is also easily copied....all you have to do is see one. If a cave man see's a skyscraper, he can't copy that. If a guy from the 1800's see's a micro processor, he can't copy that. Heck, even the technology that China uses to reverse engineer technology, is technology they have not invented. Much of their advancements came when the US moved manufacturing there, which was a huge mistake, because it gave them direct access to fabrication of technology that they wouldn't have otherwise been able to copy without access to those fabrication processes.
Yeah someone invented the wheel, someone invented algebra, but who utilized it best and built soo far beyond it that the underlying ancient principles behind it, no longer make up the bulk of the credit for modern invention? You can say nothing would exist without the wheel.....but the wheel also wouldn't be much without the benefit of all that came after it. The western world accomplished more in the last 200 years than the asian world accomplished in the last 2,000 years.
But I'm interested, what ideologies are holding us back? I hope you don't mean inclusion. Because that's certainly not what's holding us back, it's what's crushing us by allowing us to be usurped, siphoned from, and crippled. That doesn't mean that countries of the world can't benefit from working together, but when the citizens of countries are usurped within their own borders, that is primarily a one sided deal. If there's any point where the playing field became uneven, it's at least when Bill Clinton gave asia the favored trade partner status that robbed the US of advantages it developed by giving those advantages away. And the US has been suffering the consequences of that for the last 30 years. But the blame is not entirely on Bill Clinton. He was just doing exactly what the Chinese wanted him to do.