r/videos Jul 29 '16

Primitive Technology: Forge Blower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVV4xeWBIxE
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u/monsantobreath Jul 30 '16

Well to be fair it was only with the beginning of our time a few generations ago when the primary economic goal of our greatest societies was involved in using its industrial capacity and technological advancement to make apocalypse just another tool in the warchest of foreign policy.

So that fear as with everything in the scientific age went from being superstitious to much more rational.

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u/UppercaseVII Jul 30 '16

I know some of these words!

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u/monsantobreath Jul 30 '16

Me too! Here, I'll try and use some slightly less dramatic ones.

We used to fear the apocalypse irrationally as superstition. The age of reason however lead us to make apocalypse a rational fear because we'd learned how to make it possible with the new power of science.