kevin_strom on Nostr: Then there's that moment when you realize that our civilization has been ...
Then there's that moment when you realize that our civilization has been Middle-Easternized for more than 1,600 years -- from the moment the new overlords started knocking down our temples and burning our star-maps and works of philosophy and science. And soon enough the moment also comes when you recognize that, had the Abrahamic virus not infected us, we might have discovered America in 492 instead of 1492, set foot on the Moon in 969 instead of 1969, and reached what heights we can only dream of today.
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