• Rekorse
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    3 days ago

    Theres a reason societal change is cyclical and repeats at about the exact average human life span. We literally need old “ideas” to die to make room for new ones.

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      “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it,” - Maxwell Planck