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Only marginally relevant, but the people who are in this thread and can answer may overlap quite a bit. I have always been fascinated with why did so many adva
by kaba0 4y ago
Only marginally relevant, but the people who are in this thread and can answer may overlap quite a bit.
I have always been fascinated with why did so many advancements have been made in the last few hundreds of years, centralized mostly in the “Western countries”? Don’t get me wrong, it’s absolutely not some “superiority-check” on my side, I have just never heard a convincing argument that made this area special. Was it just a “good place at the good time” event, something related to some side effect of religion/society?
One somewhat convincing argument was the constant battles between small countries?
- alchemist1e9 4y agoProtestant Ethic? Not sure.
- cdot2 4y agoThe enlightenment, the scientific method, and capitalist societies that fund research and development
- pfannkuchen 4y agoWhat is more likely, that this has never happened before ever and we are the very first, or that it has happened before and our expectation that we definitely would find some evidence X years later is simply incorrect?