Wednesday, July 20, 2005
warning: that's a believing in progress blog
an old teacher of mine meaned. similarly, that, after all, the middle age was not really worse than the roman one or than the ours. so don't tell the middle age dark if you don't want to be failed!
another issue is if our achievments are everlasting.
nevertheless i think that i'm freer than my grandaddy. and even he was also freer than his one! we all are freer than our fathers because we are able to exploit our capabilities almost in full. we know more, we travel more, we live more. why shouldn't we feel better off than every master of the dark middle age?
another issue is if our achievments are everlasting.an old teacher of mine warned us students against belivieng in "historical progress". that's a dangerous idea, he said, because there are no steadfast everlasting improvements in human history: sometimes are we better off, sometimes worse off. so don't think you can't lose what you have gained.
nevertheless i see that, since pleistocene many (if not every) achievments have been someway handed down to posterity. we are just missing how to build pyramids.
so, after putting the pyramids apart, that seems to me a noteworthy steadfast and everlasting progress in the history of human beings.
if you don't mind, of course.
// posted by luca @ 7:45 PM 
