One of the underrated psyops over recent decades is the sense that we had everything figured out. That physics was just making incremental progress, that we knew everything we needed to about history, etc.
Now that I’m finally free from it, I feel ravenously hungry for information about physics and ancient history. It’s like I’ve become a student again after being so jaded for 35 years about whatever boring drudging they could teach me in a classroom.
The gravity of that is just starting to hit me.
I hate to make everything on nostr about bitcoin but thinking about the progress of human knowledge reminds me of the fractal of the bitcoin price.
Always looking at the chart seeing this enormous run up and thinking that we must be at the pinnacle. Then four years later to see that as hardly a blip compared to the new price. And then again as the pattern repeats.
Its like that with knowledge. Seeing the exponential growth from where we have come but then maybe stagnating or having a "progress bear market". Thinking that we have already seen the top. The all time high of human progress. Only for a new breakthrough to push us to a realm previously thought impossible.
Very well said. Thanks for sharing. ✅👍
"The gravity of that"
Pun intended? :)
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