>>11994860>Why are most people lurkers?>IRL too (uni classes for example)I will explain you exactly why.
For the vast majority of history, as a species we simply existed like other animals. Eat, reproduce, survive. Normal. Then there was the religion and philosophy that dictated how to live. It regulated social relationships and explained unexplained, but it was still about survival.
Even the gradual improvement of the tools of killing and the ways of getting food came down to this. Every improvement was about survival.
However, somewhere in Western Europe at the end of the Middle Ages, a different approach to improvement began to emerge. Not to survive, but to improve, to check. Change for change's sake, not out of necessity. This new way of thinking developed slowly to explode with full force in the 19th century. Eccentrics, inventors, madmen discovering something became "pop stars". Thinking and discovering became fashionable. It lasted somewhere until the middle of the 20th century and became commonplace. In my opinion, nowadays invention is not fashionable, but only desirable to satisfy consumers, which means that we partly return to thinking from before this revolution, but on a different level. We expect that there will be inventions, but the people who design them are not famous, and these are just another anonymous work, which we do not admire but demand. Admittedly, there are universities, pop-culture productions promoting slogans: "all the way forward", "don't give up", "it's all up to you", "you make your way", but how many people listen to them? There is no such a push for these slogans anymore, and I am afraid that we are entering another period of stagnation, but at a higher level of development, which in turn is more difficult to maintain in case of "misfortune".
