If the priestly classes map to technocracy then an additional factor under that heading interacting with workers in the run up to 1200 is the religiously-motivated breakup of kinship networks. It can be argued/shown that it is a significant factor of why, when, and where modern urbanization did/could emerge. Henrich and co-authors' work has centuries of granular data to demonstrate cross-cultural--not just Europe's version with the Catholic church--causal influence that ripples through to modern day (counterfactual natural experiments), creating the WEIRD psychology and culture that underpins the institutional, governmental, and technological changes in later centuries.
Very illuminating and oddly reassuring. Putting the current chaos into perspective is very helpful and may even point a way forward (for those of us interested in ‘up and to the right’ for everyone)
I do have a question about the below theme, seen here and elsewhere. With such a long piece with many data points, the assertion of what Wokism is and has done seems to be alluded to yet never has concrete instances or examples. I freely admit to being super naive in this regard and would really appreciate the specifics I can read about, much like many other sections of this post.
“The mission of protecting the weak and vulnerable (in the case of the Templars, protecting pilgrims to the Holy Land) got derailed and transformed into a program to capture the assets of weakened incumbent powers.“
I would love to read predictions of 2700 AD. One piece of text I keep coming back to is Robin Hansons Age of Em. If we’re of a time, I feel like we'll eventually be able to choose that. Not in a time travel sense but in relation to bandwidth and compute. To live closer to high density information and bandwidth will visibly impact life as being close to a gravity well.
If the priestly classes map to technocracy then an additional factor under that heading interacting with workers in the run up to 1200 is the religiously-motivated breakup of kinship networks. It can be argued/shown that it is a significant factor of why, when, and where modern urbanization did/could emerge. Henrich and co-authors' work has centuries of granular data to demonstrate cross-cultural--not just Europe's version with the Catholic church--causal influence that ripples through to modern day (counterfactual natural experiments), creating the WEIRD psychology and culture that underpins the institutional, governmental, and technological changes in later centuries.
https://www.science.org/content/article/how-early-christian-church-gave-birth-today-s-weird-europeans
https://historicalpsychology.fas.harvard.edu/assets/files/bahrami-rad-2022-kin-based-institutions-and-econ.pdf
https://archive.ph/e7DJX
A second, similarly sized shift is probably the "what happened 40,000 years ago" anthropology/archeology/philosophy question.
The Eve Theory of Consciousness was a great tour of the transition, wrapped around a wild and fun theory: https://www.vectorsofmind.com/p/eve-theory-of-consciousness-v3
Also, I wonder if there's predictive power in Chapman's stages of development? (Well technically Kegan's: https://vividness.live/developing-ethical-social-and-cognitive-competence#stages)
Especially if the last two shifts map well to specific steps... Exercise for the reader I guess, I'll take a look 😅
Very illuminating and oddly reassuring. Putting the current chaos into perspective is very helpful and may even point a way forward (for those of us interested in ‘up and to the right’ for everyone)
I do have a question about the below theme, seen here and elsewhere. With such a long piece with many data points, the assertion of what Wokism is and has done seems to be alluded to yet never has concrete instances or examples. I freely admit to being super naive in this regard and would really appreciate the specifics I can read about, much like many other sections of this post.
“The mission of protecting the weak and vulnerable (in the case of the Templars, protecting pilgrims to the Holy Land) got derailed and transformed into a program to capture the assets of weakened incumbent powers.“
I would love to read predictions of 2700 AD. One piece of text I keep coming back to is Robin Hansons Age of Em. If we’re of a time, I feel like we'll eventually be able to choose that. Not in a time travel sense but in relation to bandwidth and compute. To live closer to high density information and bandwidth will visibly impact life as being close to a gravity well.
Venice = the squad theory of history https://x.com/tobyshorin/status/1888990500826521710?s=46