Europeans fetishize Greece, Rome, and the Viking B-plot of the Middle Ages. But it was the core Christian part that had this special historical intensity. Before or after, Europe doesn’t particularly stand out on a global heat map of Seldon radiation.
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It is very illegible, compared to its neighbors like contemporary Islam. Hence the informal Dark Age term. But perhaps Febrile Age is a better term.
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The Black Death definitely is the climactic point. Not until the wiping out of native Americans would a comparable clean slate exist anywhere in world history. You can track all the key MVP features locking into place in 14th century Europe. https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1255170726878834695?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1255170726878834695 …
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I would love further explanation on this tweets, I know Seldom and psychohistory and I know my fair share about European Middle Ages, but would love to know more about your reasoning to conclude this
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Loving this new bit of contrarianism and have had similar thoughts muhself
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Universities invented, lot of basic stuff like tables and chairs, knives and forks took their Platonic forms
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could agree! really interesting complexity there.
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