Read till Page 47 and finished the introduction.
The subtopics were rethinking justice in Ownership, Education and Immigration. He talks about how party bases shifted, civil rights movement, elitism in education and how immigration is a relatively new phenomenon.
Large scale social organisation is never simple and criticism of an existing regime is never enough to ensure that something better will replace it. When we consider big history in terms of social organisation, the temporal distance allows us some objectivity.
On complementarity of natural language and mathematical language, he has a valid point about the need of "natural" language in discussing these matters and using statistics as a powerful tool with recognised limitations.
The final section details the organisation of the book.
Part 1
Inequality Regimes in History
Chapter 1
Ternary Societies: Trifunctional Inequality
Forgot to publish this. Will put the ideas from Chapter 1 as a separate blog.
The subtopics were rethinking justice in Ownership, Education and Immigration. He talks about how party bases shifted, civil rights movement, elitism in education and how immigration is a relatively new phenomenon.
Large scale social organisation is never simple and criticism of an existing regime is never enough to ensure that something better will replace it. When we consider big history in terms of social organisation, the temporal distance allows us some objectivity.
On complementarity of natural language and mathematical language, he has a valid point about the need of "natural" language in discussing these matters and using statistics as a powerful tool with recognised limitations.
The final section details the organisation of the book.
Part 1
Inequality Regimes in History
Chapter 1
Ternary Societies: Trifunctional Inequality
Forgot to publish this. Will put the ideas from Chapter 1 as a separate blog.
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