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user-inactivated · 3316 days ago · link · · parent · post: Ask Hubski: How will history judge us part 3
Something about humanity changed around 15 or 1600. We have variously named it the Enlightenment, the scientific revolution, the Protestant Reformation, progressivism, whatever. All sides of one coin. It is now 2015. The way we are judged will depend entirely on whether 2015 is situated 10 percent of the way through the current era of ideological thought, or 95 percent. Picture a number line. Are we this 1550 - - - 2015 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > or this 1550 - - - - - - - - 2015 - - . I think about it nearly every day and still have no idea. Too many factors in play.