>>1712791Well just imagine how stupid the proposition seemed for uphill work.
Anyone could see the advantage of the wheel in a downhill situation, but uphill? Might as well just push.
People had beasts of burden for uphill. The idea of working to get uphill was weird. Only iconoclastic hermits and exiles lived in upland frontiers.
Civilization was cultivated in lowlands globally for 10s of thousands of years. Water transport technology was far more compelling.
>>1712790This is equivalent to any downhill sport, and when compared head to head, nothing modern is as interesting. The people who do BMX, cyclocross, etc., are all suited up like perfect retards. If they want to stay safe why even ride gravity's rollercoaster? If you are going to be an unfit lardass, what exactly can you brag about, you didn't create mechanical advantage, and you seem terrified of it the instant you get on it. What we have is a culture of extremely fearful moderns who don't have simple and widely available entheogens and exogenous stimulants like coca.
That is the real problem- not that by merely adding the coca leaf you can bring first world cultures up to their level.
