Pessimists Archive
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History of resistance to new technologies and ideas. Curated by @louisanslow Newsletter:
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Generally papal hot takes on new technology are a mix of safe platitudes such as “it should do no harm and benefit all” and absolutely stonking cold takes such as:
In 1846 Pope Gregory XVI said early railroads would:
“increase the poverty of the population, threaten the
security of states and, internally, to be harmful to entrepreneurs and facilitate the smuggling and introduction of foreign goods”
via @paleofuture
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