to OP, yep. I think about how much was lost by mobs, wars and fanatics all the time. One of the reason I am always awed by art work that's a thousand or so years old is because somehow, it survived all the fickleness and stupidity of man.
One example I think about a lot is this..Carthage and Rome both had indoor plumbing and fresh water fountains. The biggest problem today around the entire world is fresh potable water. Carthage then Rome solved that problem, thousands of years ago without electricity. Just recently, an Italian village figured out how to get an ancient fountain working again, largely by accident. The Fountain delivered pristine water right into the center of the village. That village went for 1800 years, through droughts, famines, wars, pestilence and plagues and the thing that would have really improved their lives was right there, in the center of the town, but no one knew how to turn it on.
Can you imagine that if the barbarians that invaded Rome, instead of destroying, looting, and vandalizing, had learned how to keep the aqueducts flowing, learned how the sewage system worked, understood how the baths worked, we could have been a thousand years more advanced than we are now.....? Let's say instead of fighting over the stuff we fight over, we had actual education that imparts knowledge and valued learning like the 18th century Americans did, we'd have electricity thousands of years before we discovered it and harnessed it. We could already have the answer to everything we could ever want or need but we're too busy attacking each other, following ridiculous ideologies and worrying about what other people have than to actually discover the wonders of the world for ourselves.
The one criticism I make to anyone who tells me "science" is, are you a scientist and what have you discovered and invented? If the answer is nothing. What they say IS nothing. We have forgotten to ask for the proof of why we should listen to this or that one. We stopped asking why any point of view should be heard as if all have an equal right to be heard. We live in a time where no one knows but everyone has a piece of paper saying he knows and so he's put in charge as if he did know but when the knowledge is needed, we find, he doesn't know and never did. This is Mueller. This is Fauci. This is our governors. This is our press. This is everyone who speaks to us with authority. If these are the authorities we listen to, then why are we surprised that the mob tears everything down?
to OP, yep. I think about how much was lost by mobs, wars and fanatics all the time. One of the reason I am always awed by art work that's a thousand or so years old is because somehow, it survived all the fickleness and stupidity of man.
One example I think about a lot is this..Carthage and Rome both had indoor plumbing and fresh water fountains. The biggest problem today around the entire world is fresh potable water. Carthage then Rome solved that problem, thousands of years ago without electricity. Just recently, an Italian village figured out how to get an ancient fountain working again, largely by accident. The Fountain delivered pristine water right into the center of the village. That village went for 1800 years, through droughts, famines, wars, pestilence and plagues and the thing that would have really improved their lives was right there, in the center of the town, but no one knew how to turn it on.
Can you imagine that if the barbarians that invaded Rome, instead of destroying, looting, and vandalizing, had learned how to keep the aqueducts flowing, learned how the sewage system worked, understood how the baths worked, we could have been a thousand years more advanced than we are now.....? Let's say instead of fighting over the stuff we fight over, we had actual education that imparts knowledge and valued learning like the 18th century Americans did, we'd have electricity thousands of years before we discovered it and harnessed it. We could already have the answer to everything we could ever want or need but we're too busy attacking each other, following ridiculous ideologies and worrying about what other people have than to actually discover the wonders of the world for ourselves.
The one criticism I make to anyone who tells me "science" is, are you a scientist and what have you discovered and invented? If the answer is nothing. What they say IS nothing. We have forgotten to ask for the proof of why we should listen to this or that one. We stopped asking why any point of view should be heard as if all have an equal right to be heard. We live in a time where no one knows but everyone has a piece of paper saying he knows and so he's put in charge as if he did know but when the knowledge is needed, we find, he doesn't know and never did. This is Mueller. This is Fauci. This is our governors. This is our press. This is everyone who speaks to us with authority. If these are the authorities we listen to, then why are we surprised that the mob tears everything down?