Wednesday, December 8
Part III
So these premodern old guys create these systems to explain how everything works, how it used to be better when they were kids and they're really swell stories, see, so we the people like these stories because they seem to make sense to our monkeybrains, so we tell them over and over and over (and over) again, and then some wise guy like me writes them down but the problem is their perceptions are wrong, maybe, or probably, again, correct me if I'm wrong, and these stories get mutated into ideas, and then Big Ideas, which become guidelines and then rules and laws and governments are formed to enforce these philosophies and systems of thought and rules and then we decide that our rules are better than the rules and ideas of the people over the hill or across the river, and then every few years, when one side or the other exploits the idea of one of the smarter guys on their side, who comes up with a wheel or iron or catapults or rockets or germs or memes or some other technology, one side or the other goes off and beats the crap out of the other side for awhile until the other side steals the new idea or adopts the same meme and catches up, and then improves on it, even though if you look at their original sources of their stories, and the origional content, they're very similar, very very similar: be nice to each other, get along with each other and so on ...
