Q: How did your perspective change after learning so much history? Did you view the world in different light? Has learning changed how you view different structural systems? If so can you explain what in particular?
A: there is this one certain phenomenon which i already knew about, but found out it was even 2,0000000 times truer after studying the history of the entire universe. put it this way: 'Do you remember that one shocking breakthrough which totally changed everything?' ... was thinking of the internet, but then i realize, no maybe i'm also thinking of the discovery of electricity. or the sudden invention of book publishing. or the sudden invention of writing. or the sudden development of language. or the cambrian explosion. or the sudden existence of life in the first place. or like 100s of other major turning points, throughout our history all the way back beyond this species, beyond life in general, all the way back. this idea of being clueless for almost an eternity, then suddenly, you figure out the magic key to something, and then your progress is multiplied 1000x. then you go on for a while (seemingly a very very long time, but still 1000x shorter than the previous long time), until you find another magic key for that round, and then that amplifies your progress another 1000x...... do you see where i'm going with this... Extremely exponential nature here, and it seems to be the nature of learning, invention, figuring things out, etc... This theme of the 'extreme breakthrough' is repeated so many times throughout the history of our planet that it becomes absurdly impossible to ignore