Passenger on Nostr: Always remember that very serious, learned, earnest people were busy telling the ...

Always remember that very serious, learned, earnest people were busy telling the world that it was impossible for the Berlin Wall to be torn down by a mob, right up until they saw it happen on the news.

Outside of narrow fields of engineering and the physical sciences, "X isn't possible" is not a statement about whether or not X can happen, it's a statement about that person's ability to conceptualise action happening outside of ways that they understand.