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a while ago people were asking how come it took humanity so long to develop agriculture etc. i suspect the answer is basically this. innovations are deviations which threaten the prevailing social order and so they tend to get put down https://t.co/zBZOls8gMb
maybe not the case re: agriculture specifically but i know i have like 20+ random tweets about this general thing but im too sleepytired to look them up now. Semmelweiss sent to an asylum for asking doctors to wash hands. nobody caring when Fleming discovered penicillin
renaissance following the black death maybe in part to people questioning god. dutch golden age benefiting from everyone fleeing religious persecution in the rest of the region. i think deutsch had some stuff about… antirational memes?
(sketching) 30 years after shakespeare died, england banned theatre because it was deemed too sinful, and it seems to me like that ended that particular golden age of theatre. it was part of the civil war between charles and cromwell etc. golden goose killed over crown squabble?
true https://t.co/vhOnLyLACI https://t.co/L3Xu1JYgxa
@visakanv Literally! Was chatting about this concept with my Uber driver. How a library I went to had books behind class and how it was such a shame to have knowledge hidden from reach and possible consequences of knowledge.