I find myself thinking a lot about that thing matt said during War is Hell about how we're in a 3rd iteration of a disrupted cosmological/literacy process.
used to be, for the west, the books and the libraries were controlled by the church. you wanted to read something to learn, well it was gonna be in Latin at a monastery. and hey, Latin is the language of our all powerful God so it all jives. God powers from God!
then the moveable type press came along and now there were conflicting stories of what God wanted spreading like fire across a contested Europe. there were multiple posters, arguing each with their own voices of god in different tongues. though they were a tiny minority of a tiny minority (literate), gate kept still behind the already wealthy and powerful.
now there's the internet where we get a hundred million bozos with god-like, unprecedented power to have their every notion be spread around the world at the speed of light saying some of the dumbest shit ever half-farted out of a brain. a hundred million gods all screaming at once.
I find myself thinking a lot about that thing matt said during War is Hell about how we're in a 3rd iteration of a disrupted cosmological/literacy process.
used to be, for the west, the books and the libraries were controlled by the church. you wanted to read something to learn, well it was gonna be in Latin at a monastery. and hey, Latin is the language of our all powerful God so it all jives. God powers from God!
then the moveable type press came along and now there were conflicting stories of what God wanted spreading like fire across a contested Europe. there were multiple posters, arguing each with their own voices of god in different tongues. though they were a tiny minority of a tiny minority (literate), gate kept still behind the already wealthy and powerful.
now there's the internet where we get a hundred million bozos with god-like, unprecedented power to have their every notion be spread around the world at the speed of light saying some of the dumbest shit ever half-farted out of a brain. a hundred million gods all screaming at once.