#to being the first metal you think about when somone mentions “bunch of scrap”
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the history of the world as we know can be divided on the sinusoid, the ages, going into extremes from focus on the science, human and its mind, deities being seondary concern (Renaissance) to focus on faith, emotions, feelings with all aspects of life being somehow centred around worship of higher powers and myth being more important than the fact (Middle Ages)
It's quite easy to tell that we're currently on the former part, with focus on what's tangible and thought over what's believed and felt; The modern era as whole is it, with our focus on innovation, faith being overrun by fact.
The questions I'd like to pose are:
Where do you think we're in this era? At it's beginning? During it's peak? Or maybe we're waning towards it's end?
What would you name it?
And the most interesting one for me that I'm still wondering on:
What event do you think will lead to us leaving this era into another one? What would cause humanity as we know to believe in gods over machines once again?
#feeling philosophical today#usually i dont post my rambles but i wanted to share this one#im geniuenly curious#history#culture#anthropology#modern history#history era#history essay#my post#about how id name current era (cause lets be honest theres no way people 5 hundered years in the future will call#our curent era “the curent era”):#i think going by the convention of naming eras after the most important ore (bronze; copper; iron)#the one were living in now should be called aluminium age#we managed to find a way to harvest it around the time modern era began and only on wide scale with beginning of machine era#along with it it went from being exeding in rarity to gold or even platinum and being way more valuable than both of them combined#to being the first metal you think about when somone mentions “bunch of scrap”#due to its properties its widely used in everything that defines our current era#and i dare say we wouldnt be where we are without it
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