Axial [Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]
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Agree with the bonus panel.
Also: Just because we don't know any religions or faith communities from before that time doesn't mean that they didn't exist, just that we don't know about them. The further away you are from a point, the less details you can make out. This is completely normal.
Blaming this on population density and urbanization might not be wrong, but it can't be all there is to it. I think.
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Cause I had to look it up:
L’enfer c’est les autres = Hell is other people
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Agree with the bonus panel.
Also: Just because we don't know any religions or faith communities from before that time doesn't mean that they didn't exist, just that we don't know about them. The further away you are from a point, the less details you can make out. This is completely normal.
Blaming this on population density and urbanization might not be wrong, but it can't be all there is to it. I think.
David Graeber's "Debt" goes to some extent about this,
He traces philosophy back to a few factors such as urbanization, imperialism (i.e. Greece, India and China were great empires at that time) and the advent of coinage at the time (which allegedly was a way ro finance armies and finance more imperialism)
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The fact that these coincide with the first development of writings has nothing to do with the fact that we know about them. And therefore it is obvious that philosophical thought and complex belief system cannot have existed in pre-recorded history. Before the invention of written symbols, humans were idiots incapable of such things. It is also obvious that those great thinkers came up with everything on their own without relying on previous orally transmitted philosophical traditions and beliefs.
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