Paul Rosenberg – A fundamental part of “how people lived” is the technology they created and used. We’ve been covering this in our previous lessons, but this lesson will go into it further.
One of the most important things to remember about technology is that it improves human life far more than rulership ever has or ever could. We see this very clearly in the fact that technology is almost never forced upon us: It’s appeal is so clear that we willingly spend our time and money to get it.
Rulership, on the other hand, is forced upon us: Like it on not, we have to do what the ruler says. The central statement of rulership, after all, is, “These are the rules, and whoever doesn’t keep them will be punished.” Every form of rulership has a reason why their rules are of ultimate importance and must be kept, but none of them allow disagreement. Continue reading