Eurocentric history has erased major Asian milestones including Tang Dynasty woodblock printing, Bi Sheng’s ceramic movable type, and Korean metal movable type. Framing Gutenberg’s press as a uniquely European development completely ignores those innovations.
It’s a shitpost sub. Agreed. But Eurocentric historical bias / propaganda needs to be called out if we’re actually going to have an honest grasp of the world and the many civilizations that have contributed to its progress.
You’re looking at the conversation with tunnel vision in the context of a shitpost sub, and then lamenting that we haven’t had a comprehensive discussion of all the stages of progress that led up to the point of Gutenberg’s press?
Don’t show up to a baseball field and then lament that nobody’s playing soccer…
Eurocentric history has erased major Asian milestones including Tang Dynasty woodblock printing, Bi Sheng’s ceramic movable type, and Korean metal movable type. Framing Gutenberg’s press as a uniquely European development completely ignores those innovations.
It’s a shitpost sub. Agreed. But Eurocentric historical bias / propaganda needs to be called out if we’re actually going to have an honest grasp of the world and the many civilizations that have contributed to its progress.
You’re looking at the conversation with tunnel vision in the context of a shitpost sub, and then lamenting that we haven’t had a comprehensive discussion of all the stages of progress that led up to the point of Gutenberg’s press?
Don’t show up to a baseball field and then lament that nobody’s playing soccer…