Novelty and Heresy: http://paulgraham.com/nov.html
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In light of this, it’s remarkable that human society has advanced as far as it has. Do you think our resistance to new ideas has waned over the centuries ? IE seeing the benefit of new ideas , humans have grown to increasingly embrace novelty ?
Very interesting question. Clearly there is less resistance to new ideas in e.g. Europe now vs Europe 500 years ago. But I don't think it's because people have seen their benefit so much as because institutions that suppressed them have eroded.
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There is a theory I read that the discovery of America in the 15th century (around 500 years ago) irrevocably changed our collective mindset from 'we know everything because it's in the Bible / other religious texts' to 'we probably know nothing and need new ideas'
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Several other important things happened at about the same time.
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