I feel we're living in the next chapter of Tuchman's great book, "The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam". All this is solvable. sigh.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted I Could Be Wrong
After wreaking havoc with the world for hundreds of years; and two global wars; and *almost* global annihilation.https://twitter.com/dansblog1/status/845310890765271040 …
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I don't know how anyone who looks at the history of the previous industrial revolution and draws comfort. We almost did the whole world in.
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Things *briefly* stabilized after the *second* global war; efforts like Marshall plan, EU, UN—happened under shadow of nuclear brinkmanship.
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Wait--you're saying that the wars of the twentieth century were a result of technology? So preindustrial times were more peaceful?
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Upheavals and wars in 19th century and 20th century were thoroughly intertwined with technology, yes.
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Previous eras had their wars; it was awful. Probably couldn't annihilate the whole planet at once.
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You should read some Pinker. Don't agree with a lot of his causal analysis, but stats clearly show decline in violence w/ technology
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There is also great decline in mortality. That's missing my point: we almost annihilated the planet. We still could.
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Agree that technology introduced WMD risk. Don't see at all how that means tech spells economic doom for next gen working class
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Not tech. All of it. The reason factory jobs became "good jobs" was politics plus unions. 19th century factory was hellish.
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Not compared to 18th century farm, it wasn't. That's why so many flocked to the factories from the countryside
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Um. Flocked? You should read about mechanization of agriculture; effects of slavery, colonization and trade etc. Have a good day.
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