I meant more posts from me in general, since this is my first article on this site. As for why the devil would hinder social progress: allowing humans access to nuclear weapons while preventing reasonable discussion actually seems to me a pretty good way to achieve exactly the wasteland you describe. (Obviously this though experiment assumes the ‘devil’ has no actual supernatural powers, since that would make the exercise pointless)
I have no idea what you mean with your last paragraph.
I meant more posts from me in general, since this is my first article on this site. As for why the devil would hinder social progress: allowing humans access to nuclear weapons while preventing reasonable discussion actually seems to me a pretty good way to achieve exactly the wasteland you describe. (Obviously this though experiment assumes the ‘devil’ has no actual supernatural powers, since that would make the exercise pointless)
I have no idea what you mean with your last paragraph.