* It is debatable whether Europe went into 600 years of darkness after the fall of Rome. Our view of History is biased towards recorded History, and the end of the Empire meant the end of the largest and most punctillious record keeping organization of that Millenium. The centralized administration collapsed, and with it the supply network that sustained the large population in Rome; but it seems hard to evaluate whether the life of the Europeans as a whole regressed in the following centuries, or continued to improve. Many cities throughout Europe surely kept growing and became more "civilized". Perhaps the "total degree of civilization" kept increasing, but in a quantitative rather than qualitative sense --- that is, a lot of people improved, while a few regressed. To tell whether this happened or not, one would need statistics that seem largely unavailable.
Moreover, if one looks a bit beyond Europe, one can say that the center of civilization simply moved elsewhere, to the Caliphate -- that built an Empire about as large as the Roman one, and was just as civilized and progressive as the Romans had been.
Pottery records show activity collapsed after the 5th century.
That activity continued or increased elsewhere is of no consolation to those who had to abandon all their real estate as Rome collapsed from 1.3 million to 30,000 population. No mention those who lost their lives.
* You are right that knowledge may be 1000x more valuable than matter, in terms of the results it may produce; but value does not equate to price (that is, how much one can obtain in exchange for it). Just consider that air is infinitely more valuable than caviar, for example.
That shows how utterly stupid you are, to compare an abundant
fungible resource to
knowledge production that is not fungible.
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* I am very skeptical of anonimity as a "weapon of freedom". On one hand, one cannot build a functional society only with anonymous interactions. What makes society work it is the network of person-to-person interactions, where the parties know and trust each other. In anonymous interactions, outside the reach of government, there is no incentive to honor deals or build a reputation.
You entirely missed the upthread point made that reputation does not require personal identity.
Btw, we always had anonymity with cash, now we are losing it. And so now we move to the slavery State if we don't have anonymity.
The real goal (and Agenda 21 fits in) is Smart Growth which is moving people into cities to be slaves:
http://youtu.be/hfbpNpq0YBIThe man-made global warming hoax, environmentalism, carbon taxes, Smart Electric Meters, and Technocracy is all tied in.
Make sure you see my
Agenda 21 and Georgia Guidestones posts upthread.
Dumb-ass masses have been
manipulated by fear, and their pre-frontal cortex shut down and converted into Malthusians. Malthusians have never been correct ever in the history of mankind since Mesopotamia.
This is a global plan and you can see most of the dumb-ass masses all over the world have fallen into this
"Save the Earth" mass delusion.