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Fascinating post. I'm curious: given long history of pandemics, why the certainty that CV represents a hard break? It's not even clear to me that Black Death occasioned a hard break. To me, both crises look more like events that accelerate longer-term trends of growth & decline
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A big part of it for me is the degree of technological unraveling, which is a function of tech evolutionary state rather than the pandemic’s characteristics per se.
Reading the earlier post helps me understand how you envision this "break." Reminds me of Yeats's theory of the gyres, although he imagined 1,000-year cycles. Also helpful to read your take on ITTB. Will chew on this and perhaps come back to you with more thoughts. Thanks!
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