All that religion and mysticism. All that stuff about gods, little people, spirits, elves, afterlife, etc. Stuff that all the smart people talked about for thousands of years.

It's all wrong. They were all just dumb.

Does that count as romanticizing too?

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The problem is modern people are in fact not smarter. We're in fact doing the exact same thing we've always been doing

[–] thatguydude@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Time is a circle

[–] tslnox@reddthat.com 2 points 11 months ago

Ka is a wheel, gunslinger.

[–] galloog1@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Time is a progression. I hope we've gotten smarter but we still do often fall for the same tricks.

(Abstract narrative that everyone can agree with without agreeing what tricks we're all falling victim to.)

[–] cameron_vale@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

I agree. And every time a new way of thinking comes along, everybody hates all the other ways of thinking.