Metahistory


Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World
Contraduction
Global Tech Wars: China's Race to Dominate
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
Terraglossia
Mastery
The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Beliefism: How to stop hating the people we disagree with
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The Coming Caesars
 
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Amaury De Riencourt
The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival
Drood
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Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life
Rochelle Forrester
Ever increasing human knowledge is the ultimate cause of the development of human societies from hunter gathering to agrarian to industrial societies. However as human societies change from one form to another, there are substantial changes in the social and cultural institutions of those societies. The different types of societies tend to develop with different population structures, class systems, belief systems, government and legal systems, and different types of economies. The changes to th ...more
Rochelle Forrester

Rochelle Forrester
The order of discovery concerning the materials in the human environment and of the technology that resulted from such discoveries was not haphazard or accidental. The order of discovery followed a logical order and an order that it had to follow. The easier discoveries were made before the harder discoveries; discoveries that were dependent upon prior discoveries being made, were only made after those discoveries; and inventions that were not economic or did not meet human needs were not made u ...more
Rochelle Forrester, How Change Happens: A Theory of Philosophy of History, Social Change and Cultural Evolution

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