When so many people have adhd you should question whether it’s a mental condition or a societal condition.

And you’re just saying bullshit. Just because you can’t work without deadlines doesn’t mean deadlines are necessary. That’s just management lies to extract “productivity” at the expense of everything else.

Free softwares wouldn’t exist if your theory had any truth to itself. Art wouldn’t exist either.

That is a totalitarian idea because it only leads to totalitarian behaviours. Like the ones we have in so many companies where engineers are monitored like they’re children and given unrealistic deadlines under the pretense they’re lazy or procrastinate. None of this actually work. There is absolutely zero evidence it does.

You are generalising over something that’s wrong. That is the problem of your thesis.

No. Humans don’t thrive under pressure. This is merely a totalitarian idea.

I’m pretty sure there’s no evidence of war accelerating research beyond the effect of funding research more.

And Newton and Einstein had none of these motivations. Galileo neither.

You compare with your situation, but it has nothing to do with befote. Not because we’re not at war, but because we live in a capitalist distopia. Because capitalism won the war.

All the discoveries you’re talking about could be motivated by the thirst of knowledge or making the world a better place. But the only single motivation we have left today is making money for our overlords, that is the key change.

It is not that war fuels discoveries, it is that greed does not, and greed is the only allowed motivation in our society. The only one that will receive money anyway.

Take Internet as an example : it was funded because of war and fear, but those who made it only had hope and naivity to make it, which is why it is so insecure, and why so much is done since 20 years to lock and dominate it.

Hitler still was crucial for the nazis to take power. His political wits was much higher than any other nazi. He did turn the nazi party from an irrelevant extremist group to a force that could seize power. He didn’t do it alone. But pretending that nothing would change without him is like pretending Caesar or Napoléon weren’t mandatory to their deeds.

Hitler definitely couldn’t do what he did alone. But he was definitely a pivotal factor to make History what it was.

Counter argument : ww2 was completely irrelevant to all post war progresses, war against communism, which was a mortal threat to capitalism, was the key factor.

During the cold war, capitalism had to provide comfort and progress to people, or people would have turn communist. And so it did. Until it basically won in the 70s.

The idea that society needs war or competition incentive to do anything is the dumbest liberal mind fuck of today. It’s completely wrong, but it goes with the ideology that dominates.

The idea that we need war for progress is dumb.