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"Every age gets the ideas it needs" - Morris, Why the West Rules—For Now

• bryanrasmussen 5y ago
  seems unlikely, because then we should never have any ages that were stagnant or had downfalls of their dominant civilizations as they needed the ideas that would prevent these problems from occurring but evidently did not receive them.
  • graderjs 5y ago
    It's a good point. I think the book means it in a slightly different way to that, but Let me think about it and try to relate it to what it says in the book.