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To: epicure who wrote (480231)

9/29/2021 11:48:44 AM

From: koan

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I am not sure what your point is, but regarding reading, people are reading more today than ever, just not books, but non stop on their iphones and computers with most getting constant updates on current events.

I have never seen The "Women of 1939", but I am talking about populations of people. Surely you don't think people were smarter in 1939 than today? The movie :" The Cowboy and the Lady I am sure is much more representative of the thinking in 1939 than your movie.

A good way to see how much we have evolved intellectually is to simply see how many more women are in congress.

Below I have a link that shows the steady rise in the number of women in congress from 1917 to today. It is straight up. Not to mention we still had segregation, the LGBTQ community was still in the closet and certainly could not marry, and there were only about 10 women in congress in 1939 whereas today there are 120.

And there was very little awareness of existential thought in 1939.

What links Einstein, Sartre and Russel is that they were among the brightest people of the last century and all were basically existentialists. They all had Knowledge directed perception as would half a dozen UC Berkeley grad students.

The folks in 1939 were light years behind the folks today, intellectually.

A record number of women are serving in the 117th Congress | Pew Research Center

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Message #480231 from epicure at 9/29/2021 11:22:39 AM

Watch The Women from 1939. They would definitely understand the conversation. Not to mention that Sartre was working (1905-1980) during that time period and so were Russell (1872-1970) and Einstein (1879-1955). You are mixing up weirdly related materials. Do you think the viewers of The Purge are going to go in for Einstein's theories? Sartre's philosophy? hardly.

In many ways, because people actually READ things, people prior to the computer age were more informed and better thinkers. We may be better tinkers now- but I do not see evidence of better thinking.