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A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANKIND (Part Four : The Scientific Revolution…
A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANKIND
Part Four : The Scientific Revolution
WHEN : 1500 AC,
scientific revolution loop : research > power > ressources > research etc
principles
admit ignorance
gathering observation through maths tools
acquiring new powers > tech
ignoramus : discovery of our ignorance
NON scientific approach
believe a science is irrefutable, the absolute truth
live with a non scientific absolute truth
scientific dogma
empirical observation
compile observations into theories > Maths and modern sciences
books : Newton and Bacon
IDEA OF PROGRESS
belief that our pb are only cause of ignorance ( poverty, diseases etc )
Gilgamesh project
death is just a technical issue that can be overcome by science ?
Marriage between science and Empires
Capitalism
promise that future is better than present, entrepreneurs dilemma
credit : difference in pie s seize between today and tmrw
modern economy : profit is reinvested
ADAM smith : growth ok, but what if companies > bad conditions and poverty
Sugar daddies of science
politics
Econ
ideology
INDUSTRIAL REV
: possibility to harness any source of energy with the right machine
CONSUMERISM
why revolutionary
first time In history : supply outweighs demand , so need a way to sell the excellent
what
tables turned, today rich pale invest, while poor are the ones who buy
why works
RELIIGION : condition : restrict desires, prize : go to heaven. CONSUMERISM: prize : give free rein to cravings> Condition: enrich the riches
TIME
When
1880, Greenwich, British gov mandated official time
Collapse of family
strong state and market > strong individuals > weak family
RISE OF imagined communities
nation
consumer tribes
Peace and War
World : elastic bubble than can contain fast social change without collapse
World more stable and less violent
physical international conflicts only in places where ressources are material ( rather than technological )
Happiness
correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations ?
Chemical happiness : air conditioning system that keeps regulates temperature to keep it constant
End of Homo sapiens
bionic life
artificial intelligence/ brain machine interface
genetic engineering
Part Three : The Unification of Humankind
History s direction : towards unification but still each one has their specs ( like diff cell types of a body )
3 UNIFICATION WAYS
Money
WHAT
Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.
HOW
« Once trade connects two areas, the forces of supply and demand tend to equalise the prices of transportable goods. »
ORIGIN :
Specialisation of workers made barter ( le troc ) harder > creation of money , 4000 BC
Principles
Universal convertibility
Universal Trust
Negative aspects of money
money invests in itself, not trust or human relationships
breaks barriers of human morality and values
Empires
Definition
territorial flexibility
but cultural div gets to decrease by time > forced standardisation
cultural diversity
Imperial vision
we are conquering you for your own good
imperial cycle
grp creates empires > imperial culture is born > small grps adopt the culture > grps demand equal right in the name of imp values
purging culture from imperialism
naïve
disguised crude nationalism
GLOBAL EMPIRE
global opinion
global challenges
global markets
Humanist religions
liberal humanism
social humanism
evolutionary humanism
man made order packed with contradictions > culture tries to find solutions > cultures change
History is chaotic 2
chaos level 1 : doesn't react to its prediction, ex weather
chaos level 2 : reacts to its prediction
culture
according to memetic, a metal parasite that spreads , disregarding happiness of its host
Part Two : The Agricultural Revolution
LUXURY TRAP: 10 000 BC
Man became slave to it crops and sheep
discrepancy between evolutionary success and individual suffering ( industrial farming, poor farmers etc )
Start worry about the future, long term vision
RISE OF IMAGINED ORDER
factors that forge believe
imagined order shapes our desires ( consumerism, romance )
imagined order is inter-subjective ( which increases its social pressure )
imagined order is embedded in the material world ( object, castles, codes: HAMMURABI's code)
RISE OF WRITING AND MATHS
sumérien base 6 system
NO JUSTICE in history
Social hierarchy > Rigid social system due to negative feedback loop
Segregation
Part One : The Cognitive Revolution
birth of collective beliefs, imagined realities > unite groups of more than 150 pile
communication > share info, social relationships
70 000-30000 bc, new ways of thinking
divorce between History and Biology ( not enough bcz culture explains as well )
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