Yes and no. I think lots of advanced stuff (for a suitable def. of ‘advanced’) will just not be ‘common knowledge’ for multiple generations until it ‘fixates’.
Most movements fail. Most ideas die before they get momentum. That doesn’t necessarily mean the ideas were bad, just that they had bad luck or the circumstances around them weren’t just right.
Yes and no. I think lots of advanced stuff (for a suitable def. of ‘advanced’) will just not be ‘common knowledge’ for multiple generations until it ‘fixates’.
Most movements fail. Most ideas die before they get momentum. That doesn’t necessarily mean the ideas were bad, just that they had bad luck or the circumstances around them weren’t just right.