They replaced the social functions of the pub, except they sharpened the mind instead of dullling it.
I'm convinced that coffee houses were the birthplace of the Enlightenment, Capitalism, and Science. Nootropics + conviviality = progress.https://twitter.com/juliagalef/status/888442607608635392 …
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Have you read Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.
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A book that makes that very case - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3872.A_History_of_the_World_in_6_Glasses … …
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Scientific Advance: Coffee. Allows: Coffee House, Capitalism, Science (with Enlightenment)
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Thousands of years earlier, first pubs in Mesopotamia. Beer + lots of people = ideas (and need for legal codes)
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Ironically, coffeehouses later became hotbeds of reaction against all those things, and largely remain such.
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it's so hard to take this seriously, but there it is, retweeted. Comments are just as good
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Also invented the Tip box on the table: To Improve Promptness
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They were; look at Egypt as well
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