Note: This post was recovered from the Sh.org archive.Username: whitewaveDate: 2020-06-22 13:07:01Reaction Score: 0
I've seen that guy. He's amazing. If you think about it, everything we have is built from dirt, rock, and primitive materials. Of course, we've done a lot with those raw materials, improving and refining them into more complex materials for our uses.
No, I don't think quarried stone buildings or the sumptuous edifices we call "Tartarian" were built by uneducated savages. I've said many times that I think there's oodles of evidence for advanced civilizations in the past, something knocked us back and we lost the technology we once enjoyed.
Just the fact that we're still destroying evidence of that past civilization tells me that it wasn't so very long ago or it would be done by now.
I'm saying people can accomplish greatness but probably not under post apocalyptic conditions.
I also don't think we originated on this planet and the genetic memories of past cataclysms or the feeling we have of our species being extremely ancient is due to what we experienced on our original world. Not all of what we "remember" happened here. We are the descendants of the elite who managed to escape which may account for why most of the world are jerks.
I don't think all of our technology and knowledge was lost completely but rather consolidated into fewer and fewer hands with each catastrophe which is why we're in the state we're in today. The pleebs don't learn about the available cool technology until at least 50 years after it's come out (if ever).
Since the industrial revolution we've not had any real inventions except those designed to enslave or eradicate us. The narrative is that for thousands of years we were uneducated barefoot peasants and within 100 years we rose to illustrious heights, even traveling to the moon (allegedly). Seems highly unlikely.
I think we'll see the glorious architecture of old again or our children will.