If you had to pick a date for when “the world as we know it” began, whatever that means to you, what would it be?
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While the 20th century and beyond was the “managerial” age, which began with a period of total state mobilization of the economy and the founding of certain “wartime” institutions (and cultural intuitions) that were never actually dismantled after WWII.
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I have a very strong sense (from reading contemporary accounts) that “the world ended in 1914” and also that “the new world began in 1945” and that “the 1945-present world is in decline”
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I'm not denying the existence or importance of that distinction. My question is: if you can only pick two bits of distinction to describe the last 100Myrs, what would they be? That's a very high bar, and most distinctions won't meet it.
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Oh, at *that* timescale you’re correct. I tend to think of “the world” in the Heideggerian sense of “a cultural milieu’s sense of what’s normal”
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