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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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French Revolution, Scientific Revolution, Romantic Period, Periclean Athens, 1848, Enlightenment, China’s May 4th Movement, the Gilded Age, Manifest Destiny, Russian Revolution (February)
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My suspicion is, you never notice the dawns, only the dusks. Old consciousnesses falling apart leave you adrift in anomie. New ones forming around you are only noticed when they in turn fall apart.
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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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hmm wonder how quickly news of Columbus' and Vasco De Gama's voyages spread on both ends. There was a great magazine article I can't find about how coastal native americans processed the arrival of Europeans.