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| Looks like John Michael Greer. Is Piri Reis? |
Another interesting essay by John Michael Greer, this time about technology.
What if high technology did exist in ancient times, but we can´t see it, since we assume it must have looked like *our* kind of high technology or - even if it did - it wasn´t used the way *we* would use it (the only right way according to Whiggish History and the Western Idea of Progress)? For instance, there are tantalizing hints that the ancient Egyptians and Chinese knew electricity, but used it for ends that would have been considered less than optimal today (the author could also have mentioned the temple of the mysteries at Eleusis).
Greer also discusses some strange maps from the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, and no, the notorious Piri Reis map isn´t one of them.
What all this means is that the societies of the future may also develop high technology, but without easy access to fossil fuels (which will be depleted by that point). In other works, he has speculated that ultra-light airplanes may bee the wave of the (distant) future. Note the reference to Blavatsky´s root-races!
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