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2000 years ago all you had to do was voice a few thoughts on life, society and science you could be considered a polymath.
Today if you wanted to write about even a single topic, you'd first need to familiarize yourself with the entire history of the subject, and devote a life to specializing your skills in an even smaller area of the topic before making a contribution to human knowledge.
So you're left with two options: become a jack of all trades learning about different fields but never inventing or discovering anything, or do nothing but specialize in a single narrow thing.
How bleak!
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You're complaining about having access to 2000 years of collected wisdom?
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Cry more, bitch.
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>to be considered a polymath
So it's just about prestige and recognition for you
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>2000 years ago all you had to do was voice a few thoughts on life, society and science you could be considered a polymath.
You only think that this was the case because you have no idea what you're talking about.
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Of course, it's true that much of the low hanging fruit has been already taken, but on another hand you have access to the history of damn near everything right now at your fingertips. Step it up.
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but 2000 years ago i couldnt talk about books in a forum dedicated to chinese cartoons
checkmate, greeks. glad i didnt start with you boyfuckers
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