Some try to explain this saying utopia has less drama than dystopia. But never explain a changing parameter with a constant factor.https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/914504814712754177 …
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Literary works are vastly more likely to reflect cultural trends than to explain them.
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but do the rare ones that do drive trends end up driving the system trajectory?
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Affecting the system trajectory, certainly. But hard to causally disentangle the work itself from the culture primed to receive & amplify it
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One factor behind culture-wide optimism / pessimism may be the extent to which societal problems seem tractable on a small group level.
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I'd postulate 1848 as the true turning point—clerics turning against the Enlightenment—though 1816 aligns better with the Romantic movement.
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