@erikphoel The golden age is too racist, sexist, and homophobic.
@erikphoel The surprising part now is that we have not overcome this depression and learned something constructive from it.
@erikphoel Contrarian view: we are in fact living in the golden age of modernity, such as it is. Hyper consumerism, hyper information, hyper capital. The hangover will be spectacular.
@erikphoel there's tons of valuable knowledge that's written down but not freely available on the internet, and there's tons of valuable knowledge that isn't written down anywhere definitely not the entirety of human knowledge, but maybe enough to whet your curiosity in most directions?
@erikphoel The limiting factor wasn't the *amount* of information. The limiting factor is how well human can absorb information. Nothing beats print.
@erikphoel Because the results of that would be instant, right?