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  • PeleSpirit@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    What’s weird to me is, the dark ages weren’t dark for the Middle East, they kept on learning and expanding. What’s in a name and all that.

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      Historians of the medieval era hate the term “dark ages”, even in relation to Europe. The whole notion that the Roman Empire went poof one day and then everything sucked for 1000 years is just cartoonishly wrong.

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        I once heard in some history tv show that it’s called “dark ages” not because of the bad living conditions, but because we know so few things about it, compared to other history periods.

      • PeleSpirit@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        They didn’t skip it, the enlightenment was a continuation of what they came up with. I’m pretty sure they didn’t deny the earth is round and the sun is the center of our galaxy.

          • PeleSpirit@lemmy.world
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            8 months ago

            Hmmm, the minions probably did think the earth was flat since that’s what the church told them. Definitely, most of the thinkers of that time knew it wasn’t and were told to keep it hush hush or there would be harsh punishment. It’s not a one size fits all kind of thing, and just like everything else, it’s complicated.

            • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              That is a myth that has been debunked a long time ago. In fact, the Earth being round was discovered in antiquity and Eratosthenes measured the Earth’s circumference almost accurately in about 240 BC.

          • PeleSpirit@lemmy.world
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            8 months ago

            Now you’ve got me curious, what do you think they didn’t continue? The art wasn’t the same, is that it? We should be very thankful they saved a lot of knowledge that could have been lost.

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              What the hell are you talking about? I’m talking about enlightenment, you know, the explosion of philosophy in the 17th century?such as the explosion of liberalism, ideas of socialism, The theories of government, American and french revolution, ect.

  • paddirn@lemmy.world
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    Another alternative is that we’re already living in the “Golden Age” of Mankind, which is kind of scary to think about.

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      We may look back at these days - you know, where not all diseases kill you, and in fact were super easily handled, barely an inconvenience!:-P - and wish to have such things as “antibiotics” again, before bacteria all became immune to them.

      Or maybe the world will rally together, and start funding research into alternatives quickly enough for it to matter? Just like climate change too…

      It’s a good thing that people aren’t anti-science now, bc that surely would be a problem if we want to reach that bright shiny happy future we keep hoping for. :-|

      • Our existing antibiotics would be perfectly fine, if they were used responsibly instead of mass breeding resistant bacteria to mass breed animals under terrible conditions because capitalism.

        In the same wake climate change would be much easier to deal with if the economic system wasnt designed around infinite growth of production and consumption.

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    Stop using proprietary software, embrace FOSS. Krita, GIMP, Inkscape.

    • Mr. w00t@lemmy.mlOP
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      You want me to say “Feel free to GIMP your variants”? =\

      P.S. I made this in Inkscape actually :)

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        The word you are looking for is “make” or “edit”.

        Kids these days… Have to rename everything! /s

        Did you know that “to google something” is the proprietary version of “to search something”? See!!! Proprietary software has integrated into conversational phrases! *It’s time to stop!*

        I envy you because I don’t know how to use Inkscape properly (it looks very complicated). I don’t really need/use it, so yeah.

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      keep using ‘photoshop’ as a generic term and verb until it becomes ‘generic enough’ for adobe to lose its trademark. same with ‘google’ ftm.

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        Nooo!!! You are only helping them! /s

        Instead use edit/make/search.

        *Look how they massacred my boy English!*

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        Enough is enough. It’s time to make this year the year of Linux. /s

        I mean, I mostly enjoy my FOSS (there are some issues). At least I don’t have to pay thousands of dollars or pirate it (and hiding it) only to find out that it’s Linux incompatible.

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    Keeping in mind that a single axis for progress is reductive: also, don’t forget that there have been and will be backslides. For example, European colonialism set back a lot of progressive / alternative cultures, genociding them or converting them to something that better-served the interests of empire (e.g., race rules).

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    8 months ago

    Yeah, you’re mostly missing the ages prior to middle. Like stone, which was pretty huge.

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    We don’t have time for your full scale reality. The luxury is gone to shop for quality. It is all a sacrifice of illusion now.

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    The day i realized this and that i wouldn’t live to see said bright future was rather disheartening