I've been listening to the first volume of Durant's Story of Civilization (thanks, @eigenrobot ). He keeps off-handedly referring to a mismatch between "sexual maturity" and "economic maturity" that I think is relevant here.https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1263626007036059648 …
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Yeah when he mentioned that he was hoping the second volume would be done by 1940 I was perked up significantly
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Section on modern Japan, after a discussion of the likely inevitability of war between Japan and the US: "Note: Written in 1934".
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He has all sorts of curious dated labels and terms
Keep in mind that one was written pre-WW2