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@Tarnport the deeper, and darker, thing is this: the Soviet Union saw the senescence of it's pyramid of truth, tied to failing institutions ( #ANWhitehead 's famous words come to my mind). The dead social body formed as rich a breeding ground for old seeds for pyramids of power as a compost pile contains seeds for all kinds of weeds.
Stable ecosystems are accidents that are likely only in hindsight. The seeds of complexity accumulate through time and epochs. That's #life. #philosophy
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> Undoubtedly, as a practical age the eighteenth century was a success. If you had asked one of the wisest and most typical of its ancestors, who just saw its commencement, I mean John Locke, what he expected from it, he would hardly have pitched his hopes higher than its actual achievements.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68611
#ANWhitehead #WhiteheadOnEighteenthCentury #EighteenthCentury
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> A brief, and sufficiently accurate, description of the intellectual life of the European races during the succeeding two centuries and a quarter up to our own times is that they have been living upon the accumulated capital of ideas provided for them by the genius of the seventeenth century..
#ANWhitehead, #ScienceAndTheModernWorld
#Chomsky's #CartesianLinguistics stars with this quote..
and the #AlfredNorthWhitehead source is on-line! Includes #ReligionAndScience !
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68611 -
finally started this yesterday. it's one i will need to read multiple times, preferably in conversation with other folks reading it. and, i can already tell i'm going to love it.