3rd June 2010, 10:34 PM
troll Wrote:Greetings Odinn...... ironically then, only time itself will tell if we have proved anything at all! Our judges are in the distant future!Future history will be our judge!:face-approve:
Well, it's an idea. I don't honestly know if it is right but it seems worth looking into to me. Now, where did I put the rejuvenation pills? I want to know how things will turn out.Does it really matter if we do not prove anything? Will anyone other than archaeologists care? Will it really affect the future if we do not prove anything? People will still construct (probably largely inaccurate) stories around what we produce and future history will feed off those, creating the myths that sustain society and create our national sense(s) of identity. The world will keep turning (unless we blow it to tiny little pieces). So, does proof matter and is it likely to affect anything at all? One aspect of my own work has highlighted for me that public knowledge lags at least 150 years behind current academic thinking in some areas, and that there is a significant wilful ignorance on the part of the public, because they find the 19th-century ideas more 'glamorous' and appealing. Are we really going to change that just because we 'prove' something?
Right, I think there is still some wine in the bottle. Time to finish it.
'Reality,' sa molesworth 2, 'is so unspeakably sordid it make me shudder.'