The juxtaposition of the Dark Ages with the modern PIC offers a useful reminder of how anti-enlightenment, anti-science, and pro-magical thinking/sorcery the idea of human cages is. We like to believe we’re not medieval. But we have plagues and torture chambers and mass societal irrationality, perpetuated by a tiny rich elite, just like they did in the Dark Ages.
nailed it here: "magical thinking/sorcery the idea of human cages is". how many manifold failures must we impose, experience, observe before we begin realizing such efforts exacerbate rather than ameliorate other social cataclysms?
The juxtaposition of the Dark Ages with the modern PIC offers a useful reminder of how anti-enlightenment, anti-science, and pro-magical thinking/sorcery the idea of human cages is. We like to believe we’re not medieval. But we have plagues and torture chambers and mass societal irrationality, perpetuated by a tiny rich elite, just like they did in the Dark Ages.
nailed it here: "magical thinking/sorcery the idea of human cages is". how many manifold failures must we impose, experience, observe before we begin realizing such efforts exacerbate rather than ameliorate other social cataclysms?