XPost: talk.politics.misc, soc.history.what-if, alt.history.what-if   
   From: SolomonW@citi.com   
      
   On Sun, 08 Dec 2019 21:51:21 -0500, PhantomView wrote:   
      
   > On Sun, 8 Dec 2019 22:24:38 +1100, SolomonW  wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Sat, 7 Dec 2019 19:33:24 -0600, Byker wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>  China, India, etc., so called "civilizations" had ZERO   
   >>> progressive spark. Their evolution had ceased 1000 years before.   
   >>   
   >>China was technologically growing for much of this 1000 year period.   
   >   
   >    But not as fast as would be expected.   
   >   
   >    I once heard it explained that there was a confluence   
   >    of Confucian and Taoist perspectives that encouraged   
   >    people to "let things be" ... just fulfill your traditional roles,   
   >    keep the old world going, do not rock the boat.   
   >   
   >    This put the brakes on Chinese sci/tech.   
      
   Well Japan has the same perspectives and it is not like that.   
      
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