Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "FINALLY The S-500!" video.

  1. I am just befuddled by the implication of the name. As you know, Prometheus is the titan that stole fire from the gods and gave it to mankind. Which in general metaphoric terms means he bestowed technology on them, the advent of technology implies the ignition of the symbolic thought beyond the genetically directed instinctive behaviors. The advent of man representing to himself what can be, instead of just perceiving "what is". He sees a dried field, he can imagine it as what it is not: an irritated field. He sees water flowing in a ditch, he imagines it as it is not: rising above it;'s own level, and envisions the configurations, some workable some not, of materials that could result in water doing this very un-water-like action. This would later lead to all kinds of problems with humanity called differences of opinion, especially about one of his other fantasies that came true, geopolitics. Needless to say we are far down the rabbit hole and stating that all this kind of military development is insane to begin with, means little in a world dominated by the results of mankind seeing things "not as they are". Without which possibility there would be no technological, intellectual, or artistic culture. But of course this angered the gods, because really, igniting the mind function in man was analogous to eating the apple that got another mythical character expelled from paradise. So the gods condemned Prometheus to be chained to a rock for eternity, and each day an eagle would fly down and tear out his liver and eat it. I guess titans can grow back their livers in a day. So what the hell were the people who named this missile getting at, if anything?
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