Perhaps progress has accelerated so much that we’ve become a bit numb?
If you come from an assumption that progress is accelerating, it would stand to reason you could get celebration/awe fatigue if the introduction of something wonderous was so commonplace that wonder itself became habituated.
Perhaps progress has accelerated so much that we’ve become a bit numb?
If you come from an assumption that progress is accelerating, it would stand to reason you could get celebration/awe fatigue if the introduction of something wonderous was so commonplace that wonder itself became habituated.
“We hold all Earth to plunder, all time and space as well. Too wonder-stale to wonder at each new miracle.”-Rudyard Kipling