Comment on The people who ruined the internet

Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• NielsBohron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I agree with everything you said, except I would argue that capitalism is the Sixth Horseman of the Apocalypse, seeing as one of the original four was already replaced during a translation. The original text were interpreted as “Conquest, War, Famine, and Death,” and the story I remember from my New Testament course in college was that in the early 1900’s, it was thought that Conquest was too similar to War, so they used one of the later passages that specified that the horsemen would bring death by “sword, famine, plague, and the wild beasts of the earth” to rebrand Conquest as Pestilence. In fact, now reading up on it from Wikipedia, apparently the first two horsemen were likely both supposed to represent war, with the white rider (Conquest) representing “righteous/justified war” and the red rider (War) supposed to represent “civil war,” which is interesting.

  In fact, given how vaccines and modern medicine have dramatically lowered the death by infectious disease in the 20th century, it’s likely time for another rebranding (relevant xkcd), so I’d replace “pestilence” with “capitalism” or even “profit” if I were feeling flowery.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In Good Omens Pestilence has retired and Pollution took his place. And if you haven’t read it, it’s damned clever and funny.

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    • NielsBohron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I have read it, but I forgot about that detail until you reminded me. I probably have to reread now :)

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Those would be good App names. One is already taken…

    I assume I’m just unaware of the others.

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