“[Like] Bronze Age peasants attempting to build the Tower of Babel, humanity is messing with forces we cannot hope to understand or control”
To be fair, Bronze Age peasants built some pretty impressive towers, and judging purely from the robustness and longevity of their structures compared to the robustness and longevity of modern buildings, one might suppose them to have had a better understanding of the forces involved than we do...
To be fair, Bronze Age peasants built some pretty impressive towers, and judging purely from the robustness and longevity of their structures compared to the robustness and longevity of modern buildings, one might suppose them to have had a better understanding of the forces involved than we do...
I’m alluding to the specific Tower of Babel story, well-known in the Western canon and alluded to multiple times in the Humanitas itself.