Inventiveness requires cultural and cognitive factors that differ between civili

Inventiveness requires cultural and cognitive factors that differ between civilizations. China hasn’t so much been uninventive as they evolved a political system that put bureaucratic achievement ahead of commercial, scientific, industrial and technological innovation. If you understand chinese history as far worse at tyring to maintain stability than even european you sort of see how this comes into being. China started out empirical like europe but just as we have seen here, rapidly devolved into moralizing which produced a non-empirical and politically absurd government dependent upon authority. They never developed our concept of law at all. Just ‘orders’.

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