What do you think progress is? By your standards the agricultural revolution will never be topped because it allowed for society to exist as it does and for individuals to not spend the majority of their time finding food.
You're a fucking idiot who chose to ignore the entire rest of the fucking world. Also, for the average peasant the Dark Ages weren't terrible. Life expectancy was actually a bit higher for the masses.
Yeah I hear there is a movement to change the name of the Dark Ages to That Somewhat Irksome Span. Please, tell me all about the magical time and place that dwarfs the Renaissance in sociological and scientific progress.
The typewriter was just a quicker way of doing metal typesetting by individual letters rather than entire pages at once.
Do you think that it's possible that the reduction in price of books because of the ease of manufacture the printing press provided may have led to the proliferation of written materials and thus put literacy within grasp of the general population?
RELATIVE to the previous 1500 years, the Renaissance (~300 years) was a quantum leap in human progress. The fact that there was no internet, nor even readily available books to spread information reinforces how intelligent people had to be to come up with ideas from limited to no previously done work.
Standing on the shoulders of those who came up with the concept of "zero" during the European Dark Ages.
Yup you got me. I would actually more than happy if they were actually dead. Once Israel drives them into the sea that's one less topic on general I have to read on the ocassional basis.
Quebec, Fuck Ya-- Ethnically cleansing Anglophones since the '80's. Je Me Souviens indeed...
Is my "criticism" justified if I was born in Florida? You know...the same way if a Jew were to criticize Isreal?
