I'd say that "local bond failure" was present throughout history, the lower apparent presence of relevant phenomena in "the nebulous past" is likely due to both them being more survival-critical in those times and relatively poor recordkeeping practice
was it this one by Carlo Ginzburg?https://www.amazon.com/Cheese-Worms-Cosmos-Sixteenth-Century-Miller/dp/0801843871 …
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Dunno, I didn't take notice. But I do remember it going on and on about elaborate cosmology of a that old guy who believed that god spawned from worms and that holy trinity has something to do with how there will be more worms if you cut a worm up.
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I bet it was that one. Mennochio was a Rennaisance Italian miller who, atypically, was literate and had collected many books that the Inquisition didn't approve of. He developed his own novel cosmogony based on his own ideas and his readings.
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I suspect in 21C we would diagnose him as an Aspie guy. He loved ideas, and telling the truth to anyone who would listen, and was oblivious to dangerous social context.
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