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Saturday, Nov 14
Detroit and Babylon
I have argued several times that, despite the prevalent apocalypticism of contemporary culture, civilization is not about to collapse. Civilization is becoming stronger and more robust over time, not weaker. The refusal to allow cities to fail is a sign of this. In Failed Cities I observe...
Wednesday, Nov 11
Addendum on Incommensurable Civilizations
In The Incommensurability of Civilizations I argued that civilizations differ not only in regard to the obvious (and superficial) respects of history, language, culture, tradition and religion but also in respect to the idea that they embody, and the distinct civilizations embody d...
Sunday, Nov 8
The Incommensurability of Civilizations
Civilization ought to be an object for the social sciences, and following the scientific method observations of civilization might converge upon a list of the particulars that distinguish one civilization from the other, and one might conclude that these distinctions are the reason...
Wednesday, Nov 4
Civilization: a Rope or a Broom?
I don’t know much about Peruvian civilization, and now that I think of it I feel the lack of my knowledge. I do not know the extent to which Peruvian civilization, rich as its history is, constitutes a changing continuity as in Western history, and to what extent it involves relatively isola...
Saturday, Oct 10
Counter-Cyclical Civilization
In several posts– The Phenomenon of Civilization, The Phenomenon of Civilization Revisited, and Revisiting Civilization Revisited — I have argued that the increasing integration and viability of the elements of technological civilization demonstrates that civilization is beco...
Tuesday, Sep 22
The Cradle of Empire
England has its own proud history that I will not consider here. Instead I will consider England only as a battleground between northern civilization and continental civilization. When William the Conqueror crossed the channel in 1066, projecting Norman power into England, the Norman...
Sunday, Sep 20
Muscular Paganism
Recently in Viking Civilization I made a reference in passing to Gilbert Murray’s book Five Stages of Greek Religion. This is a book that has been a part of my life for many years and one that has influenced me profoundly. In particular, I have been influenced by the failure of nerve thesis of C...
Wednesday, Mar 25
Institutional Self-limiting Mechanisms
Everyone who reads history “knows” that the nineteenth century in Western history was marked by a belief in progress, and that the violence and horrors of the twentieth century, especially the First World War, disillusioned many, making it impossible (or ironic) to believe in progres...
Friday, Mar 13
Viability through historical experimentation
I have also written briefly in this forum about Byzantine history, and Byzantine history is instructive for us on several counts. Byzantium is “out of step with our ‘Enlightenment’ and our ‘progress’ and that is a good thing” (as I wrote about Gobineau). It would be more difficult to find a m...
Friday, Feb 13
Stalled Social Technologies
Just yesterday I realized quite suddenly that I now have the conceptual language in order to formulate this observation, and now that I have thought of it, it seems so obvious that it is as though I was planning all along this exposition of ideas in just the order that they have emerged in thi...
