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Tried to map out a world where the Library of Alexandria never burned and hit a wall I did not expect
Spent 3 hours last Saturday building a timeline where the Library survived and the printing press still showed up around 1440, and it turns out the whole thing collapses because too much knowledge just speeds up the same wars. My buddy pointed out that Rome still falls either way, and honestly he might be right. Has anyone else tried a scenario where saving one thing just breaks everything else downstream?
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joel_jones23d ago
Noticed this same thing happens with people all the time, like you fix one problem in your life and three new ones pop up because everything is hooked together. Saving the library sounds great on paper but knowledge does not make people nicer, it just gives them better tools to do the same dumb stuff they were already doing. Rome was gonna fall no matter what because the problems were about power and money, not about how many scrolls they had. It is kinda wild that the butterfly effect works this way, where the good change gets eaten by all the bad stuff that was already in motion. Makes you wonder if history has any real soft spots or if it all just kinda bends back to the same place.
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