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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

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    1. John Dickson‏Verified account @johnpauldickson 3 Jul 2020

      Thesis: the average 18 year old student in, say, York in AD 800 (the middle of the so-called "Dark Ages") had read more, knew more languages, was better trained in logic, could read more music, knew more mathematics and astronomy than the average student from a university today.

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    2. WT‏ @WT05320523 3 Jul 2020
      Replying to @johnpauldickson

      A hypothesis right?

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    3. John Dickson‏Verified account @johnpauldickson 3 Jul 2020
      Replying to @WT05320523

      Well, based on good data. I know the curriculum of AD 800, and it was FAR broader, and more rigorous, than today.

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    4. WT‏ @WT05320523 3 Jul 2020
      Replying to @johnpauldickson

      Wow! Care to share? A simple camparison of the same degree now vs 30 years ago confirms the trend. Albeit its not true for all study areas. But wow have we become shallower thinkers over a 1000 years or do we have less time to study properly?

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    5. John Dickson‏Verified account @johnpauldickson 3 Jul 2020
      Replying to @WT05320523

      We have become much shallower. Every student in 800 had to do grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy BEFORE they even started the scholarly subjects of history, natural science, or theology.

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Jul 2020
      Replying to @johnpauldickson @WT05320523

      And it didn't do them much good because most of what they thought about those subjects was wrong

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Jul 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @johnpauldickson @WT05320523

      I know it's a waste of time to dunk on people whose real interest here is cosplaying this fantasy of intellectual elitism but the idea that it's objectively necessary to understand astronomy before studying physics is absurd, like laugh-out-loud nonsense

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Jul 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @johnpauldickson @WT05320523

          And they didn't know ANYTHING about actual astronomy They had no understanding of what stars and planets actually physically were What you mean by astronomy, the capacity to chart the motions of heavenly bodies, is much closer to what we call astrology

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Jul 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @johnpauldickson @WT05320523

          And the important thing here is that astrology is false And therefore the ability to generate a simulacrum of what the night sky looked like on a certain day in history, while aesthetically entertaining, is mostly useless and irrelevant

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        1. James Linzel‏ @JamesLinzel 5 Jul 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @johnpauldickson @WT05320523

          To be fair, "Arthur dunking on people making deeply stupid statements in authoritative tones" is at least a quarter of the reason I look at twitter at all these days.

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