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 1 year 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 1 year ago (2 children)

Time is a circle

[–] tslnox@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Ka is a wheel, gunslinger.

[–] galloog1@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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