Why do S&H start Civic generations so early?

[David Horn]

(08-09-2021, 07:47 AM)galaxy Wrote:

(06-07-2020, 09:36 AM)David Horn Wrote: This was discussed ad infinitum on the old forum by just about every poster there at the time.  The result was just more controversy.  No reason emerged that even a thin majority could support.  If anything, the structure of the Agricultural Age was sufficiently different that this occurred then but not now. What that difference might have been was 90% of the discussion.

Late arrival on the scene here, who missed those discussions - what were some of the ideas mentioned?

Starting with the obvious and working down:

1. All saecula prior to the Civil War saeculum were fully within the Agricultural Age. In other words, change occurred slowly and built solidly on prior saecula.  Statistics and norming tend to work best in a consistant milleau, and that changed abruptly in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
   
2. The Industrial Age was the first change in cultural-social norms in 12,000 years, so the Civil War saculum was almost guaranteed to be affected.  How and why were duscussed ad infinitum.
   
3. Change has only accellerated since then, so the Great Power and Millennial saecula are potentially stand-alone examples, which correlate poorly with prior examples. The reasons are many, but the speed of transportion and information flow occupied the most discussion.
   

Other opinions were also included.  The advance of science and decline in religous belief among them.  It's wide open.  Have at it!