I always find it curious when people use "Bronze
Age" as some kind of put-down, usually directly more or less obliquely at
the Judeo-Christian worldview, and attempting to deliver some kind of blow to
it by implying that anything and everything that came out of the Bronze Age
would necessarily be of inferior value to anything that we have in our more
supposedly enlightened era. Human beings have created two substances
that, for all practical purposes, are permanent (will be around until the sun
subsumes the Earth): bronze, and plastic. The Bronze Agers left us
breathtaking sculpture, useful tools, beautiful adornments, and yes,
weapons.
What are we Plastic Agers leaving the future?
Garbage. Tons and tons and tons and tons of garbage, made of one of the
two most permanent substances ever devised by humans, taking over the land, the
seas, threatening to subsume the Earth before its time. Which age seems
wiser? Things that make you go "hmmmm". . . .
Somebody else musing about the use of a previous historical era as a put-down, and proposing one of his own:
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