gnidrologs (![[info]](http://klab.lv/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} gnidrologs) rakstīja,@ 2023-05-13 13:50:00 |
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sarunā par to kāpēc romiešu tilts vēl ar vien kalpo pēc 2k gadiem, bet mūsdienu sabrūk pēc 20
The ancient world had a more keen understanding of the impermanence and ephemeral nature of the world while also yearning to reach the eternal and the immutable. This resulted in two seemingly contrasting but actually completementary attitudes, which is a complete lack of interest in material pursuits beyond what was strictly necessary, but also a desire to emulate eternity when it came to those things they deemed important (which in the case of the Romans would include their own civilization. Thus, while their "eternal" capital had to be build in stone, because Rome was to last forever etc). Thus, they didn't devote themselves in producing so many trivialities as in the modern world and for the most part they treated earthly existance like a transitory thing, like a mere chapter in a longer journey, so the ancients never concerned themselves with daily necessities beyond what was needed. But whatever was meant to point to the immutable it was build to last and life in general in the ancient world was much more static than today. Time simply didn't move as quickly, things were threated with more weight and depth. If they build a bridge, they expect it to be useful indefinitely because they didn't forsee nor desire change.
In the modern world, by contrast, speed and quantity are the dominant values. All the focus is on the ephemeral, which must be increasingly more varied and complex in a futile effort to elevate the finite into the infinite. Things must be build constantly, and they must always be new things, and more of them, and larger, and they must be build quicker, hence the rise of industry, and the production of things that nobody needed nor desire before they came into existence. A bridge like the above was never intended to last indefinitely because the expectation is that a new type of bridge will soon come to replace it. Compared to the ancient world, the modern world has produced an almost infinite number of material goods and artifacts, but all of them are trivial, cheap and waiting to be discarded and replaced with something else at the outset.