Kenneth Clark's Civilisation 04: Man The Measure of all Things

No, we don't really feel like the average artist, trader, artisan, nor even politician in the Renaissance walking around as immortal beings any more, but then they did that because they still believed in themselves and mankind. Nowadays we clearly don't believe in ourselves any more. What do we really believe? How about those alternative facts, those wild conspiracy theories online, etc. What's the way out? Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto was something Montaigne would have know too. He was living in a world equally shaken, almost turned upside down, that of a France dominated by its awful Religious War. Personally, what I have only recently come to realise is that true love comes always with hurt. Yes, we are all but human at both ends of the spectrum, but why throw out love, beauty, spirituality and reason because of it? Come and let us visit Urbino once again!
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Max41 · 26-30, M

Renaissance was a disease to the society .

val70 · 51-55

@Max41 That's a rather bold statement out of nowhere. Can you expand?

Max41 · 26-30, M

@val70 Europeans stole gems , marbles , clothes , food grains , even tiles of a building ,
tools , structures , and took all back to europe .

Who steals tiles or blocks of buildings as well ?
Kidnapped people to take back to own country .

They were like beggars before that time , and mostly illiterate but highly Superstitious , and religious .
Back home they studied the stolen things , and then tried to copy it , and improve their own civilisations .

val70 · 51-55

@Max41 Europeans, yes, but what's that got to do with the Renaissance? It's like saying Ford is bad because of the wheels

Max41 · 26-30, M

@val70 It killed people , and it was built out of theft .

val70 · 51-55

@Max41 You're talking about the gold from the Americas? That was about two centures afterwards

Max41 · 26-30, M

@val70 I was referring to the petty thieves who stole building tiles or household items , the portuguese , and french , dutch others .

val70 · 51-55

@Max41 I don't think that you make a sound argument there. Teft like that has been around in all ages

Max41 · 26-30, M

@val70 They didn't travelled the seas much long ago , it was during portuguese/french ventures , when they moved like aliens . Not know where they land ? Not know what they do ?

val70 · 51-55

@Max41 Like the Arab traders in the Indian Ocean or the Chinese ones in the Far East?

Max41 · 26-30, M

@val70 Portuguese .