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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ggersh who wrote (169850)	3/23/2021 3:32:06 PM
From: sense	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217774

Little known fact... long before the first engine fell off a Boeing jet, people used to travel the globe in sailboats ! Explain how the coast of Antarctica was accurately mapped...long before "the golden age of sail" ? Columbus was, to a high degree of certainty, not the first out-of-town guest in the America's... he was only the first to publish a travelogue. The rise of western blue water naval prowess during the Age of Discovery... was also not without precedent... even in an still overly narrow European view of Historic Maritime Power. I'm going to stick by my premise... the vast majority of modern day Golgafrinchans are in no way superior to prior generations... their one and only true claim to superiority being... they are alive, and prior generations are not. Europe's dark ages... do not define either the limits or the origins of human culture, including in science and technology... while it remains a fact that Europe's rebirth in awareness coming out of the Middle Ages, is mostly evidence of rebirth not origin. That's as true in naval affairs as in other things... the Age of Discovery in a Eurocentric view simply ignoring both that the rest of the world, and its history, existed, but did not descend into the Dark Ages with them to wallow in histor-illiteracy along with the rest they wallowed in then... The Power of Publicity and Branding The two things that do tend to differentiate western prowess in accomplishment more than others... prior to The Enlightenment and The Industrial Age... are less about the extent of thinker's accomplishments, and more about control of the narrative... Whether it was Thucydides or Herodotus that was the true father of history... that Greek literature managed to have survived the Middle Ages to be re-discovered in the libraries of the Middle East, long after the architecture fell into ruins, is, for Europe, mostly a function of pure dumb luck. But, the pairing of the idea of (written) history with the development of the printing press... tends to over-balance awareness of Europe's accomplishment relative to others by welding the development of the idea of history to the myopia in perspective imposed by staging it in front of that dark backdrop, that black hole in history, that the Middle Ages created. The combined impact makes Europe, as the star in its own drama, stand out in contrast to the void in the dark staging... largely because Europe is the author, producer, and star... while the scripting mostly manages to avoid asking questions about "what happened" to divert Europe into growing and sustaining that darkness, for some 1900 years. That view of the dark void in history appears in the telling now, only in the contrast between recent history and the dark backdrop... masking the fact it was Europe, alone, and not the thread of human history, that fell into the dark void. Two steps forward... then turn around and run the other way ? Probably not the first time in history, or the last, that proves to be the key issue ?

To: ggersh who wrote (169850)	3/24/2021 12:21:54 AM
From: sense	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217774

Just for fun... typed "the Egyptians flew to Peru" into a search engine... Was hoping for something with entertainment value... Not surprisingly, a couple of hits on Nazca lines, mummified cats, passing comets and such... none of much real interest... Did find this a bit more interesting, as it seems Geronimo's grave not the only one Yale men have despoiled.. But, was surprised to find this, not of purely entertainment value... Seems the Middle East is going all out Entrepreneurial / VC culture on us... Picked this article as perhaps of more interest here, but maybe worth poking at Startup Scene a bit: DMCC OPENS IT DOORS TO CRYPTO FIRMS TO DEVELOP CRYPTO & BLOCKCHAIN HUB I did not discover, in poking around a bit... which Egyptian start-up is doing what in Peru...