Status:: #🌱 Tags:: Links:: # The axial revolution made us begin to think of time as continuous Before the axial revolution we thought of time as relatively continuous. Then came the Bronze Age collapse. You have is you had these huge, by this this time, well developed civilizations, literally millennia oldd you know, in babylon and the hittite empire, especially ancient egypt. And these are huge. And i like an analogy that's used about them. These are like that. They'r dinosaur kingdoms, theres. They're huge, and they're ancient, and they've been around for a long time. And then you get something analogous to asteroid hitden. All of these civilizations, most of them, pass out of existence two survive. The assyrian empire is reduced to a rump state. The egyptian empire survives because it has a military genius for a pharaoh, rameses the third. But it is, it is irreparably harmed, and the empire is soon lost. Nso you see, thit's a fantastic collapse. Progress wasn’t inherent to life. Gods were given names of location and didn’t change. They were more like forces. [[The invention of alphabetic literacy during the Axial revolution first led humans at scale to realize their capacity for self deception|However after the Revolution, we started seeing time as more linear]]. Like a story. This way of seeing the world is embedded in the way we think. We don’t like feeling stagnant, like we aren’t growing. That’s one of the foreshadowings as to why we are experiencing a meaning crisis. [[Humans feel horrible when we don't think we are living up to our potential]].