Narnian Technology

Narnian Technology is Weird | Narnia Explained
Into the Wardrobe | 30 Nov. 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQtlelGeK6w

Fitting to put this out on Uncle Andrew's Patron Saint's day. It was St. Andrew's yesterday.

0:38 There is actually a very large portion of history with a technology stuck around Neolithic~Medieval.

The Upper Palaeolithic is just 350 years after the Flood, the recent Industrialism has just been for 350 years too.

2:34 The printing press?

Were the books in Coriakin's library printed?

3:04 Fireworks and astrolabes ARE Medieval.

The two things that do stand out are the iron stove and the sewing machine.

[Tried to add]

Queen Helen, as you mentioned, makes sense.

7:29 Not just beginning of Antiquity and end of Middle Ages, but even more (and I think CSL would have agreed), between Nimrod's Babel (Neolithic) and England just before the Industrial Revolution.

However, in Nimrod's Babel, the speed was comparable to now. 20 000 BC to 6000 BC (which covers a bit more than just Babel on either side) seems like 14 000 years in carbon dates. But if 20 000 BC* is really between 2738 BC and 2712 BC, with a low initial carbon 14 in each sample, and 6000 BC** is really 2318 BC, that means that the Neolithic Revolution, which recovered some pre-Flood technology, was just taking 400 years and some. That's comparable to our speed.

Notes:

* See:

2738 BC

11.073 / 11.069 pmC, so dated 20938 BC

2712 BC

17.576 pmC, so dated 17062 BC

Other Revision of I-II ?

** See:

2318 BC

63.914 pmC, so dated 6018 BC

The Revision of I-II, II-III, III-IV May be Unnecessary, BUT Illustrates What I Did When Doing the First Version of New Tables

Dialogue:

Esmeralda Pendragon

@Esmeralda.Pendragon

In Narnia, technology does not progress compared to the world in which the Pevensies live, because too much technology wears down relationships between human beings.

Nowadays we no longer communicate verbally with each other, but only via technology.


This is why CS Lewis did not want to contaminate Narnia with modernism, outside of a few small tools such as the glasses, Mrs. Beaver's sewing machine, the clock, the street lamp and a few other things.

It also demonizes magic which is the root of all evil, which is why heroes are Noble Knights and perfectly normal.

What emerges most is life in nature, the cohesion and mutual collaboration of all the protagonists.

That's why I love this Saga.

Yesterday there was the commemoration of the day of birth of C S Lewis on 29 November 1898, and died on 22 November 1963.

See you soon. 💥

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@hglundahl

"Nowadays we no longer communicate verbally with each other, but only via technology."

Some are in fact stopped from communicating via technology.

One of my comments, at least, was removed, because I couldn't make a follow up comment under it.

The people I'd communicate with, if I did NOT have internet access would mostly be the kind of people who have been harrassing me over what I do on the internet. People who would treat me as a recovering addict, featuring internet addiction, because I love defending the Catholic truth. Or people who think I'm mentally confused about what Catholicism is, because I'm Young Earth Creationist (I also don't believe the "Popes" of the CCC and of Father Cantalamessa have been real popes, they have come down heavily on the side of Deep Time and Theistic Evolution, which to my mind makes them heretics).

In other words, the internet is my breath of air.

It is repairing lots of wounds in other people too, who are caught among uncongenial people. That's why it's attacked.

It didn't exist in CSL's time. Communicating via papers or radio was a "receiving end only" thing for most, and for those getting out a privilege. Either granted by the already importance or by the generosity of those editing the publications. He can't have had that motive. Not exactly as.

However, he did kind of deplore the biassed information of news papers influencing unwary middle class, but he thought Proletarians were safe, since they only read sports and crossword puzzles.