You say you strongly disagree but then said things that I think are actually in agreement with my take?
I identified that there were perhaps four times where the technology was such that an industrial revolution was possible, but in the first three it didn’t happen, perhaps because of the things you cite.
But then it did happen the fourth time. That’s really not very many tries, was my point. And I don’t see that anything you say here is all that responsive that that key observation.
I identified that there were perhaps four times where the technology was such that an industrial revolution was possible, but in the first three it didn’t happen, perhaps because of the things you cite.
We are NOT in agreement, because I claim that those other three times were NOT possible. They were false dawns that only appear plausible because people think that technological progress, given enough time, can overcome any systemic political barriers.
If you have a biology and/or technology-centered view of civilizational progress, what I say seems nonsensical. Nature finds a way and all and you have so many chances over millions of years. I am telling you that those chances NEVER existed and could never led to industrialization on their own terms.
You say you strongly disagree but then said things that I think are actually in agreement with my take?
I identified that there were perhaps four times where the technology was such that an industrial revolution was possible, but in the first three it didn’t happen, perhaps because of the things you cite.
But then it did happen the fourth time. That’s really not very many tries, was my point. And I don’t see that anything you say here is all that responsive that that key observation.
We are NOT in agreement, because I claim that those other three times were NOT possible. They were false dawns that only appear plausible because people think that technological progress, given enough time, can overcome any systemic political barriers.
If you have a biology and/or technology-centered view of civilizational progress, what I say seems nonsensical. Nature finds a way and all and you have so many chances over millions of years. I am telling you that those chances NEVER existed and could never led to industrialization on their own terms.