35820hoha236so let us discuss modern power pursuit
Q
& EXAMINE
HOW HUMANKIND HAS
USED ITS GROWING POWER
TO SOMEHOW SNEAK MEANING BACK
INTO THE INFINITE EMPTINESS OF THE COSMOS?
Yes, we "myDimoderns" have promised to renounce meaning
in exchange for power; but there's nobody out there to hold us to our promise!
We think we are smart enough to enjoy the full benefits of the modern deal without
having to pay its price? Why Bankers are Different from {other} Vampires, Ambitious Brutes,
Criminal Divisions, Economist Factfinders & Gullivers...?! The modern pursuit of power is fueled
by the alliance between scientific progress and economic growth! For most of history science progressed
at a snail's pace, while the economy was in deep freeze? The gradual increase in human population did lead
to a corresponding increase in production, and sporadic discoveries sometimes resulted even in per capita growth,
but this was a very slow process. If in AD 1000 a hundred villagers produced a hundred tons of wheat, and in AD 1100,
105 villagers produced 107 tons of wheat, this nominal growth didn't change the rhythms of life not the social political order.
Whereas today everyone is obsessed with growth, in the pre-modern era people were oblivious to it? Princes, priests and
peasants assumed that human production were more or less stable, that one person could enrich himself only by
pilfering from one another and that their grandchildren were unlikely to enjoy a better standard of living?!
This stagnation resulted to a large extent from the difficulties involved in financing new projects!?
Without adequate funding, it wasn't easy to drain swamps,
construct bridges and build ports - not
to mention engineer new wheat
strains, discover new energy
sources or ópen
new trade
routes?!
HOW HUMANKIND HAS
USED ITS GROWING POWER
TO SOMEHOW SNEAK MEANING BACK
INTO THE INFINITE EMPTINESS OF THE COSMOS?
Yes, we "myDimoderns" have promised to renounce meaning
in exchange for power; but there's nobody out there to hold us to our promise!
We think we are smart enough to enjoy the full benefits of the modern deal without
having to pay its price? Why Bankers are Different from {other} Vampires, Ambitious Brutes,
Criminal Divisions, Economist Factfinders & Gullivers...?! The modern pursuit of power is fueled
by the alliance between scientific progress and economic growth! For most of history science progressed
at a snail's pace, while the economy was in deep freeze? The gradual increase in human population did lead
to a corresponding increase in production, and sporadic discoveries sometimes resulted even in per capita growth,
but this was a very slow process. If in AD 1000 a hundred villagers produced a hundred tons of wheat, and in AD 1100,
105 villagers produced 107 tons of wheat, this nominal growth didn't change the rhythms of life not the social political order.
Whereas today everyone is obsessed with growth, in the pre-modern era people were oblivious to it? Princes, priests and
peasants assumed that human production were more or less stable, that one person could enrich himself only by
pilfering from one another and that their grandchildren were unlikely to enjoy a better standard of living?!
This stagnation resulted to a large extent from the difficulties involved in financing new projects!?
Without adequate funding, it wasn't easy to drain swamps,
construct bridges and build ports - not
to mention engineer new wheat
strains, discover new energy
sources or ópen
new trade
routes?!
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