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How do things develop and change?
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へゆりの住人(´･ω･`)
2025/03/03(Mon)20:17:22
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I think theories of evolution provide an interesting perspective. There are two main theories; gradualism and punctuated equilibrium.
Gradualism basically means a slow and steady process of development from one form to the next.It is slow but not really slow enough that you can claim nothing is happening. There are no 'slumps' of inactivity. Whereas punctuated equilibrium is more like long periods of stasis or very minute changes building up before a critical point is reached and a sort of 'revolution' happens.
I think the Renaissance is interesting to consider in light of these two outlooks. Usually the Renaissance sounds like a story of punctuated equilibrium. There was the 'stasis' period of the dark ages before humanism came around and everything changed.
However studious historians will poopoo the idea of the dark ages as a stasis period (apparently this was an invention of the Victorian era) and will explain how developments through the Middle Ages led gradually to the Renaissance.
I guess it's worth remembering that these are theories in evolutionary biology so maybe neither of them is true about culture, but which do think may be more accurate?
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2025/03/03(Mon)20:50:37
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Maybe sudden happenings of events that would lead to slow change? I will say wars
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>how developments through the Middle Ages led gradually to the Renaissance
Access to Middle Eastern culture/knowledge through crusades, Greek scholars fleeing to Europe after after fall of Byzantium, rise of monarchies with 100 years' war, losing trade routes to Muslims leading to the age of exploration ...
Also it was the cold war that led DARPA to develop what would become the internet, which itself is a catalyst of advanced Renaissance-age inventions liek printing press (instant share of knowledge) and universities (Indians on YT), and also further increase of nontheism.
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2025/03/09(Sun)02:39:35
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>Also it was the cold war that led DARPA to develop what would become the internet
Is the ARPAnet particularly linked to the cold war? I would assume that improving communications between bases is desirable regardless, so I don't know if it's necessarily war-funded, though it is military-funded.
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2025/03/09(Sun)14:20:39
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i believe things are constantly changing but sometimes they change faster due to events like wars, famine, a new weirdo shouting religious chants in the town square, etc...
i dont think you can apply biology to this though
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2025/03/09(Sun)14:46:23
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>>13780
Maybe I'm being reductive, but wasn't basically everything around then a cold war thing? Particularly in 1969?
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