通天塔越建越高

🔑 核心要点

• That made me think about Bruegel’s “The Tower of Babel” which shows an already quite chaotic depiction of the Tower of Babel.
• The story is usually told as one about pride and ambition and ultimately why people no longer speak the same language.
• But it is also a story about the unity that makes technological progress work.
• The text begins with a technology upgrade: And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.
• And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

💡 金句