The Church did stifle the Mind of humanity. This is not an urban legend. My guess is the truth lies in the middle, not to mention is heavily contextualized by precisely which period in time we're referring to. The setting of Agora , for example, is before Christian dominanance of the Western world. That being said, of course there are classic examples of moments in which the Church protected its own interests by denying science, e. It's a tough one. But overall, I still believe the Church is not in humanity's best interest in terms of knowledge and humanism.
I read two news stories this morning, one about a Christian museum in the US which puts cavemen alongside dinosaurs and the Christ cosmology sorry, incompatible , and the other about a Chechen student publicly beheading a teacher in Paris for teaching a free speech class which featured a cartoon of Allah sorry, not a shining light of wisdom to the world.
The vision Brackett puts forth is far more humanist in aim. That should have been " If indeed social movements occur in cycles that over time have a net result of zero, what then is the value of scientific pursuit? Is it just to give us something to do with our time on Earth?
Is it an innate, unavoidable aspect of being human we should shun? Is it just false hope? Or, is there a light at the end of the tunnel? These questions and more Leigh Brackett examines in her oft-overlooked magnum opus The Long Tomorrow. A simple tale, it nevertheless lays bare one of the most fundamental questions we face: to what goal should humanity strive?
Post apocalypse, The Long Tomorrow posits an America where technologically advanced civilization was put to blame for the catastrophe of global nuclear war that followed upon Hiroshima.
Religious groups jumping into the void of leadership that followed, new laws were enacted to prevent cities from developing larger than 1, people. Large gatherings of minds seen as the root cause for the development of such destructive technology, in the years that followed America became a scattering of pastoral micro-communities of religious groups of varying fervor. Neighbor keeping close watch over neighbor, technology such as radios and tvs is the work of the devil, the simple life of farming the norm.
The Long Tomorrow opens with Len Colter contemplating a sin. Thus it is with reluctance he and his cousin Esau sneak out of their houses that night to attend a tent meeting in a nearby village. Witness to a fire and brimstone sermon, the meeting ends with the violent death of a man believed to have forbidden technology. Len and Esau accidentally coming into possession of the radio in the resulting chaos, curiosity gets the better of them, and after hiding it in a tree, the two begin spending their nights trying to figure out how the strange device works.
Focusing on the value, purpose, and application of science, nuclear technology is the crux of her story. Knowledge that can be both utilized to supply electrical power to mankind as well as destroy it in terrible fashion, Len must ultimately grapple with the idea of whether the pursuit of knowledge benefits mankind.
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