Astronomy is no longer valued in developed societies. For people in antiquity and Middle Ages the celestial world was a refuge from messy Earth, they thought that stars and planets represent what is good and what is static, eternal. Is there any truth to this anons, is the celestial world really as unchanging and calm as people in the past believed?
Is secularization caused by light pollution?
Noah Barnes
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Jaxson Martinez
its astrology you nigger
but it checks out.
to take astrology as marker for civilisation health is profoundly retarded
Henry Bennett
>Astronomy is no longer valued in developed societies.
We literally pay people to make astronomical observations.
Brandon Martinez
Nobody is interested in astronomy though.
Christian Smith
light pollution is disgusting. The fact that those ultra bright purple lights theyre installing are maddening. Suburbs and residences should have non lighted sanctuaries or go back to fire light entirely
Thomas Butler
Just because you haven't met people doesn't mean they don't exist.
Kayden Scott
There is definitely value in the idea that people will be a bit more reverent and humble when they’re in the presence of something bigger and grander than themselves.
I used to see it in the Navy; sailors who were serious atheists started going to church services on Sundays when they get out there in the big Pacific Ocean. “There are no atheists in foxholes” as they say.
In antiquity, it would be too hot to sleep indoors in the summer months if you lived near the middle latitudes. Families would sleep on top of their houses- native Americans, Greeks, Romans, Palestinians, etc. even Arab tribesmen could see the night sky clearly and wonder.
Ayden Baker
Not being able to see the night sky is just another way cities sever the connection between man and nature. I don't know about secularization, but it surely makes people dumber, less interested in natural science.
How can you get interested in something you never see with your own eyes, never learn at school and never see in popular culture?
Enjoy being raped by niggers in complete darkness though.
Oliver Wright
>never see in popular culture
Remember Black Hole-chan?
Nolan Ramirez