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In reply to the discussion: "Denial of Evolution Is a Form of White Supremacy" [View all]Buckeye_Democrat
(15,526 posts)... that Europeans enjoyed after the printing press was invented and churned out books, and the later scientific and industrial revolutions there.
Toss in several psychopaths using those advantages to subjugate others around the world, and there's terrible outcomes.
If Arabic writing had been easier to mass-produce long ago, instead of effectively requiring writing by hand due to the more cursive nature of it, they might have more easily spread knowledge over the centuries with each other and become the most advanced. As Isaac Newton credited former book authors, he was "standing on the shoulders of giants". Then maybe some people from Arabia would've been the widespread subjugators instead?
Even today, we have people who'd have no clue how to create nuclear weapons themselves in control of them. So the expansion of knowledge and technology could still be used by psychopaths to cause destruction and misery.