re: #74 EPR-radar

I’m fond of considering apparent turning points in history, where things could have very significantly gone a different way. The best example I’m aware of is when Europe rediscovered the Greek and Roman culture (as preserved and extended in Islam), the Christian church faced a choice of whether to try to suppress this as a danger to the faith, or to embrace it.

It ended up being embraced, and it ended up being a danger to the faith. Has it been suppressed, things today would be very different indeed.

I just read something (probably in the book binding research I’ve been doing) regarding the (re-)opening of the Silk Road (700’s?) and it’s effect on Europe. Another turning point.

Trade is so much more positive than war.