RE: Archaeologists Find Athenian Naval Base
June 23, 2016 at 4:29 pm
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2016 at 4:36 pm by Anomalocaris.)
China wasn't static either. She was as open to technological innovations and new ways of thought as Rome ever was, and was so during the the very same time Rome was declining. Plus china spawned many innovations, such as gun powder artillery, printed paper money, national postal system, and a real system of civil service, that are arguably more inseparable from our concept of modernity than the best that Rome ever devised. Plus China had no Jesus, and yet China did not spawn a scientific revolution or modernity in the next 1600 years.
It take more than acceptance of practical innovation, and it take the right kind of intellectual and economic environment to ssustain the nurturing of the right kind of innovative thought, before there can be high change of achieving modernity.
I think there was much more chance, and far less inevitability, in the progress towards modernity than most people think. Which makes modernity all the more precious, and more worthy of vigorous and active defense, than even people most repulsed by the mideval barbarism integral to Christianity and Islam might grant.
It take more than acceptance of practical innovation, and it take the right kind of intellectual and economic environment to ssustain the nurturing of the right kind of innovative thought, before there can be high change of achieving modernity.
I think there was much more chance, and far less inevitability, in the progress towards modernity than most people think. Which makes modernity all the more precious, and more worthy of vigorous and active defense, than even people most repulsed by the mideval barbarism integral to Christianity and Islam might grant.
