The Great Devaluation

[Kinser79]

(03-12-2017, 11:00 PM)Galen Wrote:

(03-12-2017, 05:42 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:

(03-12-2017, 03:23 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: 500 years ago? That's about the time of the Thirty Years War, one of the most dehumanizing wars of all time.

Uh...you're off by a century.  The Thirty Years War was between 1618 and 1648.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War

500 years ago the Reformation started.  Probably why some boomers insist that we can't possibly be in a Mega-Unraveling because apparently this 500 years pattern is supposed to be a hard fast rule or something.  (Saeculum B probably throws off his astrological calculations or some such nonsense.)

I mark it from the time effective,about 1500, firearms and cannon started reducing castles and other fortifications to rubble because that is when the logic of violence changed.  The political institutions of any society will reflect the logic of violence since those who can wield force can not simply be ignored.

Possibly, but the political institutions naturally change more slowly than technological applications.

I have a thread about large spreads of history (and unlike Mike I'm unlikely to change my views with the next documentary I watch).

http://generational-theory.com/forum/thread-712.html