There’s a ratchet effect, though.
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Abolitionists? Or is that sermonizing plus civil war. But literal sermons were key part of antislavery / civil rights movements.
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I suspect automation moved the needle a lot more than sermons.
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? Automation (cotton gin) is usually said to have increased demand for slave labor.
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Yep, familiar with that theory. That’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about general industrialization of north making it slowly less dependent on southern economy for feeding textile mills, and easier to cut it off.
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?? textile mills, like the cotton gin, automated processes downstream of raw cotton, which still depended on slave labor. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/why-was-cotton-king/ … (I'll shut up now since I don't really have any deep knowledge in this area)pic.twitter.com/rihtDSd5do
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Yes, that’s what I mean. The entire cotton economy was becoming less important.
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I think there’s some...spirited debate at the moment about whether this is true, but it’s way above my pay grade.
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I find sudden new appearances of mass consciousness suspicious.
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Ehh, “paradigm shifts” as Kuhn said. They aren’t really sudden, or at least they build up for decades or centuries, it just seems sudden when an old paradigm falls out of solution. Then there’s reaction and/or consolidation and the process starts again.
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Scientific paradigm shifts aren’t moral evolutions though We just go from being classical assholes to quantum relativistic assholes.
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I don’t think these (even abolitionism) are really “moral” shifts, just “political” ones. They don’t necessarily change the hearts of even people who support them, just a kind of collective expression.
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