1) it might say more about a hole in my history knowledge than anything else, but having heard the phonetic script hypothesis, I wonder about how relevant was that given that Indians, I think, took pretty long to write a lot (despite having the capability) and Chinese writing even today is ... at most a bit phonetic?
2) I didn't mean a (moral?) value judgement either, but it sounds just barely plausible to me that ideologies *wrong* about metaphysics could have advantages on the physical (due to great focus on it, related to being wrong about the nonphysical - maybe you can see some of JMG's commentary about the Enlightenment in those terms?).
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Date: 2023-03-24 02:58 am (UTC)2) I didn't mean a (moral?) value judgement either, but it sounds just barely plausible to me that ideologies *wrong* about metaphysics could have advantages on the physical (due to great focus on it, related to being wrong about the nonphysical - maybe you can see some of JMG's commentary about the Enlightenment in those terms?).