>>24092This meme that the military is "productive" is so annoying. The organization that blows through billions of dollars and can't keep their toilets functional is totally the reason why technology can advance. Jesus H. Christ, my sides.
There are two great barriers to technological advance, and a third that always should be remembered. The first is that no one has any incentive to create technology for its own sake, and so, technology only arises when someone sees the necessity of proliferating it. The second is that the political incentives of human society are all arranged against technological advance. The human dream is for nothing to change so that their internecine conflict can be carried out at the lowest level of technique possible, so that ritual sacrifice may continue. The third is that humans really aren't terribly bright, and are further hobbled by a ruinous pedagogy. There are very few who make new discoveries their primary occupation, and most of those few want technology for nefarious and spurious purposes. The last thing any of these people want is technology to enter the hands of ordinary people, who would use that technology to never be ritually sacrificed again and forbid the practice of ritual sacrifice, preferably by exterminating the cults guilty of perpetuating it. Nothing in nature mandated this ritual sacrifice. It has always been a human undertaking, and exemplifies the agency of their race. If the ritual sacrifice ever stopped or became too difficult, you can see their Satanic race shrieking, including the people who would fight for their liberation out of necessity.
If humans were not singularly focused on ritual blood sacrifice, then this habit would be negated, but the result wouldn't be "infinite technological advance". The faith in intellectualism is the core cause of ritual blood sacrifice and the thrill of torture. In a world where ritual sacrifice is abated, intellectuals and technologists would be at the very bottom of the social ladder, where they belong, and viewed with correct suspicion. Technological advance would continue, but it would continue primarily to perfect things that should have been worked out before, if not for the proclivities of a deficient and retarded race.
If you're talking about some new paradigm or approach to knowledge itself, that isn't really an "intellectual" undertaking,
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