MalteFeb 23, 2024
We're on the edge of an epochal transition that is more similar to the shift from Axial age Antiquity to feudal Middle Ages than the much more discussed transition from feudalism to capitalism. Who's discussing this idea? #technofeudalism #axialage #epoch #WorldSystems
Show threadPCDec 10, 2023

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For example I think writing and communication were drivers of the #AxialAge as much as coinage or trade itself. Religion changed from state pantheons to personal gods. Written word made them (us) believe.

Also that we are now in the third or fourth Axial period. With universal electronic communication and storage, and now AI to spit it all back to us. Humanity is in a new epoch in my opinion.

I’d love to comment that idea on Wikipedia!

Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​Jun 21, 2020

The Axial Age: Co-emergence of universal empires, religions, and trade & commerce -- Trust

...It is no accident that universal religions appeared when both empires and exchange networks reached to the edge of the known universe. Nor is it an accident that one of the earliest religions of this type, Zoroastrianism, appeared ... at the hub of trade routes that were weaving Afro-Eurasia into a single world system....

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/71a3tx/the_axial_age_coemergence_of_universal_empires/

#dreddit #AxialAge #religion #empire #trust #BigHistory #DavidChristian

The Axial Age: Co-emergence of universal empires, religions, and trade & commerce -- Trust

The matter and origins of trust, [how it is transformed by information...