>>512518270>if religion didn't exist we would be interplanetary by now and I genuinely believe that.Lol; because China is a great example, right, fag?
>>512518422The fire of Alexandria, setting us back thousands of years, hundreds of years minimum is a myth from retards, no scholar believes this. No, really. In overall terms it didn't really set European culture back at all: it was a single incident in a very large world, and there were many other good libraries around the Roman world. You'll notice the Roman Empire went on expanding for another few centuries afterwards.
It'd be a bit like destroying all the copyright libraries in the UK. It would be a catastrophic loss in cultural terms, and purely economic terms; but only a minority of material would be lost for good. A lot of material would be irreplaceable, to be sure, but that's mainly antiquarian material, not treatises on cutting-edge technology. The loss to British cultural history would be profound, but the rail system and the WWW wouldn't suddenly stop working.
Having said that, there's a lot of material that was apparently lost for good within two or three centuries afterwards. For example: the Archaic Epic Cycle was still being read in the 2nd century CE, but it's very hard to find good evidence of it being read after that date. Was it the victim of some library's destruction? Possibly: but not at Alexandria. The second and third centuries seem to be the time when information longeivty really started to suffer a severe decline. Why? Hard to pin down a single reason; my pick would be, probably partly for economic reasons, partly because there had been a wave of scholarship that saw itself as superseding older writings, and partly because of the shift from scrolls to codices in the 2nd to the 4th centuries.
>>512531627Mythicism is flase earth tier retarded. Seek help.