John on Nostr: It doesn't help that in the West we're acculturated and educated toward a ...

It doesn't help that in the West we're acculturated and educated toward a "calamity-biased" vision of how human beings have always lived: the idea that there's only "civilization" and "collapse, decay, and ruin"; the idea that every society across the world throughout history shares the West's peculiarly deranged way of seeing things; the idea that, for example, the "Dark Ages" were a time of horror and failure, held up only by Monks in their towers of stone (of course it was the Monks!)

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