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I can\u2019t help but imagine that our age will be a joke giggled at by school children.\u00a0 And a bad joke at that.\u00a0 While we look down as intellectual giants and scoff at those we consider to be cognitive dwarfs who came before us, I think that the joke, in the end, will\u00a0 be on us.\u00a0 I can\u2019t help but think people will look at the majesty and brilliance of the intellectual revolutions of the West, from preserving the knowledge of antiquity in the monasteries of northern Europe, to the intellectual\u00a0movements of the High Middle Ages, to the enlightenment and scientific revolution, and wonder, \u201cHow the hell did it come down to that<\/a>?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can\u2019t help but imagine that our age will be a joke giggled at by school children.\u00a0 And a bad joke at that.\u00a0 While we look down as intellectual giants and scoff at those we consider to be cognitive dwarfs who came before us, I think that the joke, in the end, will\u00a0 be on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nLooking back thousand years from now<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I can't help but imagine that our age will be a joke giggled at by school children.  And a bad joke at that.  While we look down as intellectual\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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