Looking for more examples of historical "mass consciousness" like these 1. Marxist class consciousness 2. Calvinist protestant ethic 3. Meiji restoration 4. European renaissance 5. "Dark" ages 6. Neoliberalism 7. "Organization Man" 8. Christianization of Europe ...??
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Especially without mass communication ( like on Roman or Athenian scale - not modern though that increases it) that complex societies develop
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Strikes me though, that the arrival of characteristic infrastructure (roman roads, railroads, social-programming commodities like tobacco) can serve to mark the dawn of a consciousness as strongly as communicated texts. Don't need a Gutenberg press or stone-carved edicts.
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