Friday, Jan. 26, 2007: 2:46 p.m.
To My Well-Intended Yet Disagreeable History Teacher,
We were discussing the Great Pyramids today in your class and a student asked how long it took the Egyptians to build the pyramids. You informed him that you did not know off the top of your head. He then told you that he read that if we tried to build the same pyramids today it would cost roughly $3 billion and would take ten years. I mentioned that this was presumable less time than it would have taken in the days of Ancient Egypt. You then replied that the biggest mistake people made nowadays was assuming that our technology was better than that of people eons ago.
Um, big fucking duh. We do have more advanced technology today than we had thousands of years ago. Hell, we have more advanced technology than we did ten years ago. The refrigerator is how we can eat meat without getting trichinosis, vaccines are how we can prevent certain diseases, the inventions of things like the laser, scalpels and antibiotics that make open heart surgery not only possibly, but also successful and (most importantly to the argument) machinery requires less manual labor and can many times get the job done faster.
I looked it up online. It took roughly 30 years for a pyramid to be built, three times the length of modern capabilities. Not that I do not doubt the worth or strength of the Jews, but a crane is much better building quickly and efficiently than 20,000 Hebrews. It�s just a fact. Our technology far succeeds that of the past. Isn�t that what history is anyway? It�s studying how we overcame the shitty things we used in the past to become smarter and more efficient than we were in the past. Hell we probably aren�t smarter, but our technology is better. That�s how people as stupid as we are have managed to continue surviving: our advanced technology.
You�re a cool guy, but don�t be retarded.
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