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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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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This aesthetic cosplay bullshit is of no value, it's stuck around for so long because so much of education is just about cultural gatekeeping
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Legit “my very educated mother...” probably trumps their entire astronomy curriculum. An elementary school kid knows the precise order of planets orbiting the sun, and probably some of the basics of what each (or some) are like... I can’t with this dude.
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