Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

Adalbert, (All);
CIVILIZATIONS: EAST ASIA: SINIC.
East Asians had just about the ideal geography of climate, rivers, and coastline insulated by mountains deserts and uncrossable terrain. Both the chinese coast, and the european peninsula have the benefit of climate and trrade, but sufficient insulation from african, south eurasia, and less so from the steppe, to prevent the challenges of MENA Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.
They produced the deepest neotenic evolution of all the other population groups (races). Neoteny is the principle direction of all human evolution since it produces a delay and dept of maturity, permitting the longest period of development(adaptability), where such ‘domestication syndrome’ trades aggression and persistence for cooperation and patience (non-aggression) necessary for reducing the cost of trust formation. (and increases in intelligence, that are far larger than we assumed.)
They produced rice instead of wheat which supports higher populations, but requires 360 days of labor instead of seasonal wheat labor.
The combination of rice production, the rigorous behavior of the population under that rigorous production, the surpluses it produced, the armies, bureaucracy, and state it could fund.
They succeeded in producing bureaucracy (authority) but not rule of law (decidability independent of authority).
They converted from an empirical bureaucracy to a philosophical (secular clerical) one. (institutional failure)
They could not solve the problem of politics (for complex reasons) so confucius directed them to operate as an extended hierarchical family.
The produced philosophy instead of theology, but reasonablenss over logic, and agreement over truth for the purpose of agreement, and as such face before truth instead of truth before face.
As such their language remained high context low precision, instead of high precision low context, when the more complext the civilization the more important high precision and low context, because the human brain uses langauge to organize increasingly abstract knowledge.
They chose harmony and confict evasion over conflict and dispute resolution. They chose order and certainty over liberty and uncertainty. They failed to produce a high trust culture (polity).
They failed to produce a majority middle class because of it.
They failed to win the race of scientific, technological, commercial, financial, trade development against the west who solved the problem of politics – and activily discarded instead of allowing the ‘disruption’ of new technologies to spread.
The answer to the group differences in civilizational rates of evolution computation and adaptation and evolution is, like anna karinena’s families: many things must go right for a happy family or for an advanced civilization to evovlve (mature) from an agrarian to an industrial, and if any of those things goes wrong, especially in the distant past, then ‘you can’t get there’.

Adalbert, (All);
CIVILIZATIONS: EAST ASIA: SINIC.
East Asians had just about the ideal geography of climate, rivers, and coastline insulated by mountains deserts and uncrossable terrain. Both the chinese coast, and the european peninsula have the benefit of climate and trrade, but sufficient insulation from african, south eurasia, and less so from the steppe, to prevent the challenges of MENA Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.
They produced the deepest neotenic evolution of all the other population groups (races). Neoteny is the principle direction of all human evolution since it produces a delay and dept of maturity, permitting the longest period of development(adaptability), where such ‘domestication syndrome’ trades aggression and persistence for cooperation and patience (non-aggression) necessary for reducing the cost of trust formation. (and increases in intelligence, that are far larger than we assumed.)
They produced rice instead of wheat which supports higher populations, but requires 360 days of labor instead of seasonal wheat labor.
The combination of rice production, the rigorous behavior of the population under that rigorous production, the surpluses it produced, the armies, bureaucracy, and state it could fund.
They succeeded in producing bureaucracy (authority) but not rule of law (decidability independent of authority).
They converted from an empirical bureaucracy to a philosophical (secular clerical) one. (institutional failure)
They could not solve the problem of politics (for complex reasons) so confucius directed them to operate as an extended hierarchical family.
The produced philosophy instead of theology, but reasonablenss over logic, and agreement over truth for the purpose of agreement, and as such face before truth instead of truth before face.
As such their language remained high context low precision, instead of high precision low context, when the more complext the civilization the more important high precision and low context, because the human brain uses langauge to organize increasingly abstract knowledge.
They chose harmony and confict evasion over conflict and dispute resolution. They chose order and certainty over liberty and uncertainty. They failed to produce a high trust culture (polity).
They failed to produce a majority middle class because of it.
They failed to win the race of scientific, technological, commercial, financial, trade development against the west who solved the problem of politics – and activily discarded instead of allowing the ‘disruption’ of new technologies to spread.
The answer to the group differences in civilizational rates of evolution computation and adaptation and evolution is, like anna karinena’s families: many things must go right for a happy family or for an advanced civilization to evovlve (mature) from an agrarian to an industrial, and if any of those things goes wrong, especially in the distant past, then ‘you can’t get there’.

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