Interesting Question

[gfish]

What was the single greatest mistake of human history?

My answer:
Classical Chinese cultural myopia. They had a 1000 year head start on the west technologically, and they pissed it away masturbating to new and even less relevant commentaries on The Spring and Autumn Annals. If they hadn't been so busy navel-gazing, we'd all be post-singularity machine intellects out exploring the galaxy by now. Curse you, Zhu Xi!

What does my side of the internet think?

Comments

[noumignon.livejournal.com]

The first comment at the link is the best. Your candidate is a good one too. I posted my hyper-serious response (mostly in someone else's words) here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/wigu/58546.html?thread=1168050#t1168050).