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Right, all three of these things were a direct result of the second industrial revolution, as was the rise of communism. The first industrial revolution was pu
by aalleavitch 7y ago
Right, all three of these things were a direct result of the second industrial revolution, as was the rise of communism.
The first industrial revolution was punctuated with the American civil war. The second industrial revolution was punctuated with the great depression and World War 2.
Just imagine what the digital revolution is going to be punctuated with.
We are in for a hell of a bumpy ride.
- eclipxe 7y agoMemes and shitposts?
- aalleavitch 7y agoMemes and shitposts were funny right up until they started motivating mass murders.
- ianai 7y agoGood connection. The world wars can also be perceived as points where humanity invented new, more “wholesale” ways of murdering ourselves. Their end is also punctuated with the creating of the atomic bomb. We’ve just started to uncover the ways to use the internet as a weapon and haven’t invented any real countervailing forces to it.