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Will There Always Be Something New for You and Me to Learn?
Yes, there will always be something new to learn.
As you are reading this, I am attending a medieval reenactment event.
During said event, I am dressed in medieval garb for 7+ days, living out of a canvass pavilion, and going largely offline during this time. (Still need to reach people around the large campsite via text and like means).
One of the best things about reenacting the vast time period covered by the organization — spanning about 1000 years) is all the ugly parts that we no longer must contend with.
The ugly parts largely involve lack of sanitation, safe food, various creature comforts, and somewhat ironically now (post-2020) the plague and deep class divisions.
The point is, in the over 400 years since the time period my organization reenacts, society has collectively learned an almost surreal amount of information. We’re gotten exponentially better with sanitation, food safety, and disease management (mostly).
Given how little changed during the 1000 years or so that my organization covers, this is incredible when you give it any real thought.
From 600 BCE to 1600 BCE, learning was a slow burn at best. For another 300 years, it accelerated…
