How? Like with the last one, recorded history goes back six thousand years if not twelve thousand years… and this explanation lasted that long, applying to every human setting, for tens of thousands of significant people? Even if there was a dimorphic cause for it, statistically you’d think at least one female founder of some group somewhere would arise, but being the history disciple I am, even then it’s like there is some kind of everpresent force that’s stuck on man-mode that maybe I wonder about because I’m not a man.
There are also some which I know could have a reasonable explanation but which would be no less suspicious. Like the threat of nuclear conflict for example. Hundreds of times people have said “someone almost launched a nuke at someone, but one random guy in the submarine made a difference by not following through” or “this nuke or that nuke was dropped from a crashed plane but miraculously held onto its last remaining safety code and didn’t work” or “this nuke that actually was dropped and blew up just so happened to do so far enough away from civilization that nobody saw it”. If it’s not our biggest stroke of luck, it’s the ultimate form of “I’m really, really going to do it”, though I wouldn’t count on that as someone whose parents and grandparents were impacted by the nuclear tests of Chirac and Mitterand.
You ever notice how few slaves throughout history were inventors? It’s similar: when your ideas are considered someone else’s intellectual property, you don’t get credit in history books. When you’re not allowed an education, it’s nearly impossible to take part in the philosophical zeitgeist. When your most productive years are spent in a continuous cycle of pregnancy, childbirth, and recovery, your creative potential is diminished.
You’d think, in the two hundred or so nations that have existed, one of them would’ve done things differently at some point. Though it makes this eyebrow-raising in a whole other way. Note to self, don’t marry.
Brother. None of those things were convenient. They all have perfectly reasonable explanations.
How? Like with the last one, recorded history goes back six thousand years if not twelve thousand years… and this explanation lasted that long, applying to every human setting, for tens of thousands of significant people? Even if there was a dimorphic cause for it, statistically you’d think at least one female founder of some group somewhere would arise, but being the history disciple I am, even then it’s like there is some kind of everpresent force that’s stuck on man-mode that maybe I wonder about because I’m not a man.
There are also some which I know could have a reasonable explanation but which would be no less suspicious. Like the threat of nuclear conflict for example. Hundreds of times people have said “someone almost launched a nuke at someone, but one random guy in the submarine made a difference by not following through” or “this nuke or that nuke was dropped from a crashed plane but miraculously held onto its last remaining safety code and didn’t work” or “this nuke that actually was dropped and blew up just so happened to do so far enough away from civilization that nobody saw it”. If it’s not our biggest stroke of luck, it’s the ultimate form of “I’m really, really going to do it”, though I wouldn’t count on that as someone whose parents and grandparents were impacted by the nuclear tests of Chirac and Mitterand.
You ever notice how few slaves throughout history were inventors? It’s similar: when your ideas are considered someone else’s intellectual property, you don’t get credit in history books. When you’re not allowed an education, it’s nearly impossible to take part in the philosophical zeitgeist. When your most productive years are spent in a continuous cycle of pregnancy, childbirth, and recovery, your creative potential is diminished.
You’d think, in the two hundred or so nations that have existed, one of them would’ve done things differently at some point. Though it makes this eyebrow-raising in a whole other way.
Note to self, don’t marry.“History disciple” 🤣 Friend, you’re too much.
What’s wrong with that?