Extrapolating from a trend that has held in the West for a double-digit number of years to the entirety of the future of humanity is probably an extreme form of availability bias.
A trend that has lasted decades? Try at least centuries.
Egalitarianism and tolerance is a cornerstone of Enlightenment thinking. Constitutions gave power to the people over kings. Capitalism gave individuals a chance to rival the power of vassals who were determined by a caste system.
I’d argue it’s a trend that’s gone on much longer, but progress was much slower when access to information and ideas was not the same as the last century.
It’s not to say there aren’t setbacks, but those setbacks have always been temporary or localized.
Now can something completely prevent this progress? Yeah, but it leads to very dystopian futures that everyone should hope to avoid.
divided|3 years ago
Egalitarianism and tolerance is a cornerstone of Enlightenment thinking. Constitutions gave power to the people over kings. Capitalism gave individuals a chance to rival the power of vassals who were determined by a caste system.
I’d argue it’s a trend that’s gone on much longer, but progress was much slower when access to information and ideas was not the same as the last century.
It’s not to say there aren’t setbacks, but those setbacks have always been temporary or localized.
Now can something completely prevent this progress? Yeah, but it leads to very dystopian futures that everyone should hope to avoid.
trention|3 years ago
Please, do enlighten us how the first multi-cellular organism was literally the Whig view of history embodied. It will be very entertaining.