The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

With one of Einzige's recent posts, once again he brought everything back to capitol.  That got me thinking.  His perspective is that one thing, capitol, drives everything else.  This seems simplistic.  I came to wonder how many other one thing perspectives are there.  I came up with military balance of power, racism, industrial development, and my own triplet of turnings, civilizations and ages.  You can come up, perhaps, with ways of looking at history and human development as if that one thing is so prominent as to cast shade on each of the others.

History is complex.  If you focus on one thing to the exclusion of all others you are ignoring much.  It doesn’t matter what the one thing is, you are limiting yourself.