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Again, the people acted, not some abstract social technology - the people action created the change (contrary to your claim that it doesn't matter). Technology
by RandomLensman 2y ago
Again, the people acted, not some abstract social technology - the people action created the change (contrary to your claim that it doesn't matter). Technology might help/enable to do certain things, but human action might or might not follow from that. Without human action things don't simply change (laws don't write themselves, societies don't constitute themselves from technology only, ...). The presence of different societal model at the same time with the same technologies available shows that human action makes the difference.
- alexey-salmin 2y ago> the people action created the change (contrary to your claim that it doesn't matter). This never was my claim. Of course people action created the change. Your question was different though: > What technological breakthrough made, for example, women's suffrage possible? The answer to that is "reduction in child mortality". It didn't "create the change" but rather "made it possible" in a quite literal sense. Same with the fall of communism.
- RandomLensman 2y ago> if you look closely it was break through technology that made the advancements possible, not some social rights protest Edit: yes, sorry, not your claim but the claim under discussion Reads to me like social protest makes nothing possible, You so far advanced a hypothesis on suffrage, but not more.
- alexey-salmin 2y agoWell for one thing I didn't write that.