As usual, you provide a clearer answer about Hive's workings than anything in my hours of Googling (or DDG'ing.) On the one hand I'm thrilled and grateful to you, and on the other hand I wonder if search engines could use improvement or if authors answering these questions aren't 'SEO-able' enough, or what.
Anyway, as usual, thanks for clarifying Hive for me.
And that book looks very interesting, and relevant to a lot of ideas I've been toying with recently. The book's from 1896, but I imagine there's some gold nuggets of wisdom in it. Hmmm... appreciated. 🙏
Imo, any book written after 1930 is suspect.
It was around that time that 'the crapitalusts' began to monopolize the mass mentality with engineered precision.
If you watch the used bookstores, you will see how after that time the encyclopedias stopped including formulas and chemical compositions.
This was knowledge that those that control wanted locked away from the masses.
Any general textbooks, or dictionaries, will show you that folks back then had a much broader spectrum of knowledge 'taught' to them in skool.
The Crowd was used as the basis for modern skools of thoughts by subsequent thinkers, but when written was a general consumption publication, not a specialized 'advanced' level of education.
'They' have since dumbed down the population to where most have trouble processing ideas not fed to them predigested by their controllers.
Original thoughts are nearly unheard of and disincentivized.
By going back and reading the books that were in vogue while this system was being aggregated and cemented into place perhaps we can avoid being in the worst of what is coming.
Alot of the societal ails we think of as unavoidable are less than 200 years old.
The problems are new because of the shift in demographics from mostly self sufficient to mostly dependent on the system.
This shift allows further shifting into all kinds of areas.
As we see in the destruction of the family through drugs, poverty, and cultural disappearances.
Have you used the peakd search?
It seems quite capable.
Hmmm, interesting perspective. The pace and momentum of 'knowledge control', 'dumbing-down', and 'unoriginal thought' does seem to have risen in recent times.
I think of very few things as unavoidable, and I see ails that have cropped up in the last two centuries are highly connected to the system and environment that encourages them. I also agree that absorbing wisdom (whether from hundreds of years ago, or from the mouth of my nephew), is highly desirable.
I experimented with the search a bit, but found it slightly less intuitive than I'm used to, I'll aim to get the hang of it and leverage it more, thank you. :)