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|    Oh so rich & successful JTEM to reader    |
|    Re: "Why no Industrial Revolution in Chi    |
|    18 Oct 18 20:59:20    |
      From: jtem01@gmail.com               reader wrote:              > It has been observed that social organization and ideology change when       > technology changes.              What you didn't "Observe" -- you lack of reading       comprehension -- was the fact that Roman had       the technology to power machinery & fuel an       industrial revolution. It never happened.              > At any given time the ideology is sufficient to rationalize what is       > happening. It is the tail of the dog; not the dog.              Your standard idiocy.              It didn't happen in most of the world. They needed       western industrialization transplanted to their       cultures. They never developed it themselves.              Maybe you recall the subject line? Hello? China?                                          -- --              http://jtem.tumblr.com/post/179192791883              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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