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> it spoke the language of memory,

We are living in the tower of Babel. No one speaks the same "language" anymore. I truly believe this was the true metaphor behind that story. Once a civilization reaches a certain level of standard wealth people hyper converge on their personal beliefs to the point where they can literally no longer speak about other forms of personal belief or preference that conflicts with their own. And they no longer are coerced into going along with another belief system (compromise) due to economic need from the majority. At that point the civilization unravels due to lack of coherent direction.

Look at all the arguments about definitions of clearly defined words in modern politics.



Even so, mass media today is better posed to present a shared language.

I'd go as far as to think that there is a shared language in society today, but it's more like athletes jawing off amongst each other than something like what we expect the effects of culture and art to be.


Tech doesn't change human nature. We are still the same as 100,000 years ago without tech.


In my original comment, I said that I believe that our brains are rewired but our spirits still crave the same things as before.

Tech changes the actions and reasonings behind how our nature is exercised, at the material level.

Now, if you don't believe in the material/immaterial dichotomy that typifies man then what I'm saying may not register.

I'm not sure if this applies to you, but either way I'm curious what made you make the claim that took us in this direction because it's apparent that you've noticed a logical step that I was only aware of subconsciously.

Thanks.


Tech changes human culture. The changes are at a population, statistical level.

Asimovs Foundation book described it well.


Except for the thousands of years of civilizational-directed breeding in parts of the globe.


You can share a language and still talk past each other.


> And they no longer are coerced into going along with another belief system (compromise) due to economic need from the majority. At that point the civilization unravels due to lack of coherent direction.

I mean... you think this is _new_? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_wars_of_religion

Civilisation, you will not, survived a few hundred years of _that_.

I'm not sure that the sort of ultra-conformist society that you seem to be thinking of ever really existed.


I'm not idealizing. I'm saying its a cycle so powerful and embedded in our nature that people wrote parables about it that have persisted for thousands of years yet we keep doing it and not learning our collective lesson.




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