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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
20h ago“Does history move because of big ideas and forces, or because a few stubborn people just refused to quit?”
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What would civilizational purpose actually mean?: Skeptics
The plot nobody wrote There is no author. There is no script. "Civilization" is not a character with a destiny; it is a few billion people and their institutions, and the temptation to see a plot in that — a direction, a telos, a meaning the whole thing is building toward — is... What does developmental history reveal that's hard to see any other way?: Narrative historians
The book that was impossible On March 20, 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Within a year: 300,000 copies in the US, over a million in Britain, bestselling novel of the century....