> try reading a collection of essays written 75 - 150 years ago and it will soon become clear how stupid people are today.
I read a lot of essays, novels and newspapers from that era. Plenty of dumb, and completely wrong essays were written then.
I invite you to read - for example - "The Case for Spirit Photography" (1920)[1] by Arthur Conan Doyle (yes, the author of Sherlock Holmes) in which he argues photos of fairies are real.
It's well written, and completely stupid.
> The most profound thoughts that have ever crossed the consciousness of Man are contained in the Bible, which was written by technologically inferior people -- men who walked with God.
Au contraire, the most profound thoughts were clearly those of Aleister Crowley[2]. He wrote right in the period you suggest the best writing occurred (75-150 years ago) and because he was in direct communication with the devil via his sex magick they are obviously the most profound. Or did I mean profane?
I read a lot of essays, novels and newspapers from that era. Plenty of dumb, and completely wrong essays were written then.
I invite you to read - for example - "The Case for Spirit Photography" (1920)[1] by Arthur Conan Doyle (yes, the author of Sherlock Holmes) in which he argues photos of fairies are real.
It's well written, and completely stupid.
> The most profound thoughts that have ever crossed the consciousness of Man are contained in the Bible, which was written by technologically inferior people -- men who walked with God.
Au contraire, the most profound thoughts were clearly those of Aleister Crowley[2]. He wrote right in the period you suggest the best writing occurred (75-150 years ago) and because he was in direct communication with the devil via his sex magick they are obviously the most profound. Or did I mean profane?
Take your religious nonsense somewhere else.
[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/59809/59809-h/59809-h.htm
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_magic