As always, hitting several nails on their heads. We should love the present because it’s all we’ve got to go on from here, but it doesn’t mean for a moment it’s ideal or even better than the past. The important question is what we make of it going forward, not what we think it made of us looking back.
Interesting points. To be fair most historians have grown out of the hero worship of past figures, much to the chagrin of right-wingers. Thus the accusations of academics being nothing but woke fools.
The mention of presentism brought Daniel Everett's Immediacy of Experience Principle to mind. They are similar yet so difference. Both revolve around the now. Presentism is full of ego while Immediacy of Experience is devoid of it. Presentism is mostly about projecting current conditions into the past and future while IoE is about acknowledging the existence of now and dismissing the past or future. It's interesting how two completely opposing view points both revolve around the present and result in completely different values and life perspectives.
As for the worshipping historical figures, all I can say is I see a new awareness of this by wealthy individuals. Whether you are talking about someone like Rogan, Aaron Rodgers, Kanye West, Elon Musk etc. no longer is having a following enough. They want to convert their followers into real power. Musk is a visionary but from my perspective he is also kind of dumb. The CEO of a bitcoin company recently talked about a conversation he had with Musk where Musk was trying to give him advice on programming an app so he sent him Python code. Musk emailed him back asking him how to run Python code...that is literally programming 101. The CEO called Musk a grifter who pretends to know what he doesn't because he knows his following will eat it up even though he lacks knowledge in most things he talks about. It's apparent to me that Musk wants the world to return to the 19th century where he can play as Andrew Carnegie or Cornelius Vanderbilt. This is a world where the oil, railroad, and steel tycoons overpowered a weak federal government and where the middle and working class were at there mercy. Musk praising Chinese workers for burning the 3 a.m. oil (rather than the midnight oil) and chastising Americans for being "lazy" and only working 8 hour shifts is an indication of why he wants a large population. Disposable and replaceable workers for the tycoons.
I am beginning to doubt the story mainstream archeologists tell us about the purpose of the pyramids and how they were built. The precision and complexity of them hint at a bigger story. A prior advanced civilization seems to be implicated here. An anti-deluvian (Atlantean) higher civilization wiped out in cataclysm at the end of the last ice age, around 12,900 years ago. Randall Carlson is really putting a compelling picture together. Check it out!
On your other points, I agree that history is littered with the praises and veneration of psychopaths.
Graham Hancock and Randall both talk extensively about this very issue and the amount of research backed evidence they are putting together is fascinating!
Yes, all of that. But we’re gonna have to talk about disco!
As always, hitting several nails on their heads. We should love the present because it’s all we’ve got to go on from here, but it doesn’t mean for a moment it’s ideal or even better than the past. The important question is what we make of it going forward, not what we think it made of us looking back.
Interesting points. To be fair most historians have grown out of the hero worship of past figures, much to the chagrin of right-wingers. Thus the accusations of academics being nothing but woke fools.
The mention of presentism brought Daniel Everett's Immediacy of Experience Principle to mind. They are similar yet so difference. Both revolve around the now. Presentism is full of ego while Immediacy of Experience is devoid of it. Presentism is mostly about projecting current conditions into the past and future while IoE is about acknowledging the existence of now and dismissing the past or future. It's interesting how two completely opposing view points both revolve around the present and result in completely different values and life perspectives.
As for the worshipping historical figures, all I can say is I see a new awareness of this by wealthy individuals. Whether you are talking about someone like Rogan, Aaron Rodgers, Kanye West, Elon Musk etc. no longer is having a following enough. They want to convert their followers into real power. Musk is a visionary but from my perspective he is also kind of dumb. The CEO of a bitcoin company recently talked about a conversation he had with Musk where Musk was trying to give him advice on programming an app so he sent him Python code. Musk emailed him back asking him how to run Python code...that is literally programming 101. The CEO called Musk a grifter who pretends to know what he doesn't because he knows his following will eat it up even though he lacks knowledge in most things he talks about. It's apparent to me that Musk wants the world to return to the 19th century where he can play as Andrew Carnegie or Cornelius Vanderbilt. This is a world where the oil, railroad, and steel tycoons overpowered a weak federal government and where the middle and working class were at there mercy. Musk praising Chinese workers for burning the 3 a.m. oil (rather than the midnight oil) and chastising Americans for being "lazy" and only working 8 hour shifts is an indication of why he wants a large population. Disposable and replaceable workers for the tycoons.
I am beginning to doubt the story mainstream archeologists tell us about the purpose of the pyramids and how they were built. The precision and complexity of them hint at a bigger story. A prior advanced civilization seems to be implicated here. An anti-deluvian (Atlantean) higher civilization wiped out in cataclysm at the end of the last ice age, around 12,900 years ago. Randall Carlson is really putting a compelling picture together. Check it out!
On your other points, I agree that history is littered with the praises and veneration of psychopaths.
Graham Hancock and Randall both talk extensively about this very issue and the amount of research backed evidence they are putting together is fascinating!
Yes. And now we have the theory of “longtermism." Musk, Thiel and others believe they are the ones to now deliver.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/31/elon-musk-twitter-trump-tesla-longtermism?amp;amp;amp