One of the most persistent themes in my writing has been what I would call Eurasian dialectic. Here is what that means: I start from the historical moment when Europe broke apart from Eurasia, leaving behind the Asian continent, separated from Europe by a mysterious border that, as I pointed out in my first book, existed much more in time than in space. Europe became a technological civilization, Asia was left behind. The causes for this break, the “great divergence”, have been repeatedly studied. Personally I incline towards the thesis that it was a fully contingent development. A modern technological civilization could have taken root anywhere.
Eurasian dialectic
Eurasian dialectic
Eurasian dialectic
One of the most persistent themes in my writing has been what I would call Eurasian dialectic. Here is what that means: I start from the historical moment when Europe broke apart from Eurasia, leaving behind the Asian continent, separated from Europe by a mysterious border that, as I pointed out in my first book, existed much more in time than in space. Europe became a technological civilization, Asia was left behind. The causes for this break, the “great divergence”, have been repeatedly studied. Personally I incline towards the thesis that it was a fully contingent development. A modern technological civilization could have taken root anywhere.