Do you agree the parallels between the Middle Ages and now are uncanny?

Question

Then:
Reformation - Christians fighting Christians
Crusades - Christians figting Muslims
Culture - Caliphate retained classical Greek learning, advances in math and science, art, music, and technology. Europe lived in sh*t, Church kept the masses ignorant.

Now:
Sectarian Violence - Muslims fighting Muslims
War on Terror - Non-Muslims fighting Muslims
Knowledge - Western countries have led the world in math, science, art, music, and technology. Middle Eastern countries have been trying to recuperate from the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

Europe and Christianity made it through their "Middle Ages." Will the Middle East and Islam make it through theirs?

Answer 1

Gee, you are RIGHT, the parallels ARE astounding:

Then: People flying through the air, propelled by catapults.
Now: People flying through the air, propelled by 747s.

Then: European peasants taking produce to market in wooden ox carts.
Now: European peasants taking produce to market in diesel Mercedes trucks.

Then: The rich spending their vacations in plague-free villages.
Now: The rich spending their vacations in Cancun.

Then: The stomachs of poor children bloated up from the effects of slow starvation and intestinal parasites.
Now: The stomachs of poor children bloated up from the effects of too much sugar and junk food.

Then: Thousands burned to death at the stake because of religious persecution.
Now: Thousands burned to death in nightclub fires because of safety violations.

Then: Rule of nations by the Divine Right of kings.
Now: Rule of nations by the Divine Right of corrupt politicians.

WOW! You have convinced me! It is TOTALLY uncanny.........

Answer 2

there is no longer something uncanny approximately it. For the previous 2000 years, anyplace you detect human beings being oppressed, tortured, and killed, preparation and the progression of technology limited, and opposition to guy or woman freedom and liberty – you additionally could make specific one in each and every of Abraham’s Semitic goat-herding based religions is the two the reason and tool of the suffering or needs that it became. the present international geo-political protection stress-terror mess is the fault of (conservative) Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – thoroughly and totally. it may be one ingredient if that they had the decency and honor to maintain the killing purely between themselves, yet regrettably all of them prepare conversion via genocide, and view it their godly accountability to rape, torture and kill as many non-believers as they are in a position to on an identical time as they are in this earth. ------------------------- morey - no person cared what France thought until eventually Bush made it suitable lower back via giving France (and maximum another u . s . a . on earth) the psychological and ethical intense-floor.

Answer 3

There are always patterns in history that show up from time to time. The thing is, the West, Christianity and Judaism have evolved and made something of themselves while the Muslims still wallow in the 14th century, still stoning people and cutting off their hands for stealing food.

Answer 4

Barbara Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror" was about the 14th century, and yes, I was startled at the parallels between that time and this one. However, Tuchman was also startled about the parallels between that time and the time she was writing the book! (Vietnam era, IIRC). So, maybe we tend to compare any warlike era with that one.

Another parallel: disease. There are a lot of new diseases coming out, and there is a worry that old diseases (measles, for example) will resurface.

OTOH, our era's leaders aren't a bunch of drunken kids , and I think the relationships between the leaders aren't nearly as twisted and Machiavellian. There are a few twists and turns, but *that* era's politics was like trying to unravel a doily!

Answer 5

It is not that they are "uncanny"...but that htere has not been any changes in hierarchical structure .....EVER

The poor are the poor...because they are designed to be that...a cog in the wheel...no matter how much they try to gain...they are just going to be the lower class....

I recommend reading "The Communist Manifesto" and other Socialist lit to gain perspective on this problem with society.....
It will not change unless WE change it.

Answer 6

Like all of history! Not just the two time periods.

Answer 7

Nostradamus is having a good laugh over this.

Answer 8

No.