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Originally Posted by Skybird
Incredible that they were able to build thingslike this back then. Incredible that they could stick for a century and longer to get such an effort completed.
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God Willed It
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Compare with the modern time, understand the meaning of patience, and learn what dedication is. The hectic, short-termed interests of ours today fade in comparison. We could already have been on Mars since 10, since 20 years - what hindered us? really just practical constraints - or lacking determination and interest, and a shifting of resource-spendings as a result?
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I think we were mostly hindered by actual progress. The kind that benefits people and not regimes. As momentous as some of the achievements of our forberearers were, most were built by tyranny, oppression, and the suffering of the vast majority.
While that remains the case in some places today, that cannot be said of Germany, or indeed, almost any other Western nation. I'm pretty sure the serfs who toiled in the quarries would glady change places with almost anyone else in Europe today.