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I've read it, and I think it's silly to ascribe societal success based on the various random incedental facotrs surrounding it.
by axiom 17y ago
I've read it, and I think it's silly to ascribe societal success based on the various random incedental facotrs surrounding it.
- Nwallins 17y agoI don't see where randomness comes into his explanation. Rather, I see his explanation for technological success as hinging on massive societies which specialize, which is in turn based on highly developed domestic agriculture, which is in turn based on the East-West axis of Eurasia with origins in the Fertile Crescent and East Asia.