Technology and the Baroque Unconscious
This entry is part 5 of 15 in the series Psychohistory| ribbonfarm
This entry is part 5 of 15 in the series Psychohistory| ribbonfarm
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This entry is part 4 of 15 in the series Psychohistory| ribbonfarm
Our cartoon view of history goes straight from the Flintstones to Jetsons without developmental stages of any consequence in between. Hunter-gatherers and settled modern civilizations loom large, as bookends, in our study of history. The more I study history though, the more I realize that hunter-gatherer lifestyles are mostly of importance in evolutionary prehistory, not in history proper. If you think about history proper, a different lifestyle, pastoral nomadism, starts to loom large, and ...| ribbonfarm
I’ve been experimenting lately with aphorisms. Pithy one-liners of the sort favored by writers like La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680). My goal was to turn a relatively big idea, the sort I would normally turn into a 4000-word post, into a one-liner. After many failed attempts over the last few months, a few weeks ago, I finally managed to craft one I was happy with:| ribbonfarm
Consider this thought experiment: what if you were only allowed 2000 words with which to understand the world?| ribbonfarm
