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Originally Posted by Tuco  One of the key principles laid out in the book, "Guns, Germs and Steel" was that the reason the world is the way it is, with Europe basically being the birthplace of modern society blah blah, is because their geography enables a liberal society. As compared to nations like China without a lot of separation in its area, western Europe has geography that prevented one group of people controlling the landmass. This enabled competition and effectively allowed the group most able to change to prosper.
Obviously our technology renders these kinds of boundaries mostly obsolete, but it was a very key example showing exactly what Lleauaric~EW said to be true.
IT should also be stated that the conservative party should always be there. |
This is called environmental determinism. It is a horse shit theory first fleshed out by people like Herbert Spencer in the 19th century as a way to explain and justify colonialism and everything that is associated with it (racism, evolutionism, imperialism).
In no way did Lleauaric~EW apply environmental determinism in his argument, if he did it would be invalid, just like Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel."
