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Mt Everest had its first documented climb in 1953.
The first person went to space in 1961.
It's kind of crazy to think about how "new" mankind's spread over the world is. My father was already a teenager the first time someone climbed Everest, and in his twenties by the time someone went to space.
If we start the "modern era" as roughly coinciding with the telecommunications age (ie the dawn of the cross-continental telegraph in the1860s), it's less than two consecutive human lifetimes old.
Everything is new.
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It’s pretty wild that the American/western experiment in Liberty, defence of property rights and rule of law has entirely run its course in such a short time.
This reminds me of Terence McKenna’s last video interview that I watched for the first time in entirety last night. His “novelty theory” basically says that things will become exponentially more complex until the rate of change is so high that we’ll have to talk about how weird it is. It does feel like we are reaching the pinnacle of things somehow.
