Thursday, December 21, 2017
Full-wave rectifiers
BBC website has a feature asking who will be remembered 1000 years from now.
The article doesn't really fit the headline; it's about fame in general. Why are some universally famous people forgotten 10 years later, while others are remembered 5000 years later? The analysis is honest and fair.**
BUT: The headline has a bigger point. 1000 years is significant. We can recognize a wave in intellectual history, at least in Europe. The full period is 2k years.
2000 years ago Rome and Greece were full of intellectual activity, which was halted by the rise of Roman Christianity. From 30 AD to 1000 AD people were going about their business, and undoubtedly many of them were thinking clearly and debating various subjects and inventing useful things. But these developments weren't allowed to flower and spread.
The early 1000s marked the restart of written and formalized thinking in the Christian side of Europe. We can't see the thinking directly at first, but we can see it in the reflector telescope of the Inquisition.
The early 2000s mark the end of this phase. We are seeing the end of written thinking in the Christian side of Europe ... plus its newer satellites in USA STRONG, AU, etc. We have a new Inquisition run by the same Insatiables who ran the first one, and burning the same Deplorables. Most of the Insatiables are outside the Church now, but the Church hierarchy is firmly with them. The East and South, Persia and India and China and Africa, are picking up the burden of intellect and morality just as they did during the previous Euro blank period.
With remarkable speed we're shutting down all of the "presses" that print heresy. Carriers like Facebook and Google and Apple are appointing huge armies of human and mechanical censors to ferret out the slightest hint of a .000000001% departure from perfect verbatim orthodoxy as of this picosecond. Since orthodoxy moves at the speed of light, the censors will end up wiping everything. There is no provision for unerasing, no Ctrl-Z.
The moving finger erases, and having erased moves on.
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** BBC footnote: This is a consistent pattern in recent years. BBC's features on travel, design, and future are well written and FAIR, separating opinion and fact cleanly. BBC's fake "news" is omnicidal universe-exterminating hypertoxin. How can two departments of the same corporation have such totally opposite purposes and cultures? 
The early 2000s mark the end of this phase. We are seeing the end of written thinking in the Christian side of Europe ... plus its newer satellites in USA STRONG, AU, etc. We have a new Inquisition run by the same Insatiables who ran the first one, and burning the same Deplorables. Most of the Insatiables are outside the Church now, but the Church hierarchy is firmly with them. The East and South, Persia and India and China and Africa, are picking up the burden of intellect and morality just as they did during the previous Euro blank period.
With remarkable speed we're shutting down all of the "presses" that print heresy. Carriers like Facebook and Google and Apple are appointing huge armies of human and mechanical censors to ferret out the slightest hint of a .000000001% departure from perfect verbatim orthodoxy as of this picosecond. Since orthodoxy moves at the speed of light, the censors will end up wiping everything. There is no provision for unerasing, no Ctrl-Z.
The moving finger erases, and having erased moves on.
= = = = =
** BBC footnote: This is a consistent pattern in recent years. BBC's features on travel, design, and future are well written and FAIR, separating opinion and fact cleanly. BBC's fake "news" is omnicidal universe-exterminating hypertoxin. How can two departments of the same corporation have such totally opposite purposes and cultures? Labels: defensible times
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