Exposure and exhaustion
The greatest change comes when there is exhaustion, not vacuum. Revolutions arrive when there is too much of something, rather than too little. Renascenses occur when accumulation hits a critical level, not when options are scarce.
Karl Jaspers' Axial Age opened after a long period of literacy and economic growth. The 'moral revolution' of the 8th centur…
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