Re: Re: Origination of Capitalism

[Nemonemini]

Hope this fount is better.
The problem with explaining the origination of large scale processes such as
capitalism in world history taken together is that we can see as we zoom out
their correlation with more general cultural evolution, which itself can be
seen to show a non-random patterning. That requires therefore getting
straight what we mean by evolution in general, and finding some way to
separate out the contingent component from the non-random or structured
component. We are confusing the focussed component in the modern take-off and
the generalized universal component visible in multiple sources and
locations.

Translated into plain terms, we see the close association by temporal
correlation of the (relative) onset or origination of capitalism with the
rise of the modern, and the onset within the onset spiking in the last
generation before 1800.
Super tough question: Is this purely coincidence? Or does this 'ignition and
liftoff' (Industrial Revolution) after the lead up from the early modern
occur on schedule as a function, partially, of time?  We would naturally take
out our buffalo nickel here and bet the limit this was chance. Sorry, it's
not.  
Everything ever written here assumes this is relatively random, but consider
the 'origination' of everything else in this same generation. Almost
everything climaxes all at once, across the board, in all spheres of culture
in this striking division period. Thus we should suspect that the Industrial
Revolution, granting the separate but related analysis of the lead up
factors, contains a hidden component related to all these other broader
cultural issues.

In general, a close time and motion study of world history is starting to
show something alarming in this fashion. The origination (usually relative
onset) of most things on a major scale has a macro timing factor, a fatal
counterevidentiary suspicion of the basic wrongness of all views of cultural
evolution based on the unheard and unseen influence of Darwin.

buffalo nickels....

John Landon
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