If we ever develop Time Travel and time travel tourism we’d have a load of people going back in time and screaming that it’s “woke” because it doesn’t match their exact idea of the past.
The opposite is also true; ancient Greece now has a cultural reputation for being very progressive when it comes to homosexuality, but… If you actually read the kinds of things Ancient Greeks say about it… I mean sure, they mention gay a lot more, but there’s a lot of making fun of gayness.
Imagine going back in time to touristically “immerse” yourself in the “progressive” ancient Greeks, and all you find are rich people and states owning slaves and everyone making fun of gay people.
I don’t know how, but I still have hope that at some point in the future, the majority of people aren’t idiots. And then we manage to get it to stay that way.
If we ever develop Time Travel and time travel tourism we’d have a load of people going back in time and screaming that it’s “woke” because it doesn’t match their exact idea of the past.
The opposite is also true; ancient Greece now has a cultural reputation for being very progressive when it comes to homosexuality, but… If you actually read the kinds of things Ancient Greeks say about it… I mean sure, they mention gay a lot more, but there’s a lot of making fun of gayness.
Imagine going back in time to touristically “immerse” yourself in the “progressive” ancient Greeks, and all you find are rich people and states owning slaves and everyone making fun of gay people.
I mean, if we developed it tomorrow, sure.
I don’t know how, but I still have hope that at some point in the future, the majority of people aren’t idiots. And then we manage to get it to stay that way.
There are two constants in life; idiots and death.