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06-04-09, 6:12 AM
Going West
Theory: the West, as we think of it here in the West, might best be considered a movement rather than a place. Not only does this remove the problem that nearly everywhere is west of somewhere, it also fits our (imagined -- I've no idea if this is historical, and I suspect it isn't) idea of the progress of civilisation's cockpit, from Mesopotamia to Asia Minor (and Troy, which is supposedly where our translatio imperii starts), to Greece and Rome, to the area that is now France, and the Holy Roman Empire, to the Netherlands, to Britain and then to North America. Weirdly, this still works if the cockpit moves to China in the next century or so.
(All of the above requires that we carefully forget a lot of things -- the Eastern Roman Empire and Russia, North Africa and the medieval Middle East, and so on. I'm not suggesting that this is good or accurate, just that it's amusing.)
(All of the above requires that we carefully forget a lot of things -- the Eastern Roman Empire and Russia, North Africa and the medieval Middle East, and so on. I'm not suggesting that this is good or accurate, just that it's amusing.)
Posted by Leuconoe | 06-04-09, 6:12 AM | 4 comments
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Leuconoe | 06-04-09, 2:40 PM
Space . . . wouldn't we have to start spiralling to reach out of the circling movement towards it?
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zaitcev | 06-04-09, 12:02 PM
Space: The Final Frontier.
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Leuconoe | 06-04-09, 10:07 AM
I think it's the elegant simplicity of humanity racing on a treadmill (treadglobe?) that makes the idea attractive, and the same elegant simplicity that makes it unsustainable once you look at the evidence.
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Absolutely_Steve | 06-04-09, 8:10 AM
This is an interesting theory, although as you said there would be far too much that is necessary to ignore for it to work out perfectly. It does amuse me however, to think that humanity has continually moved West, opposing the rotation of the Earth, as it has progressed. It's as though we're trying to outrun a treadmill, knowing full well that the consequences of doing so could be disastrous. Of course for that to be at all representative of the situation it would have to be added that the treadmill is being destroyed in the process.
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