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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (118021)4/11/2016 7:58:05 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (2) of 220085
 
I think you've got that a little mixed up. No one anywhere on earth thought of the concept of democracy until the Greeks started printing books and 10% of the population became literate about 3,000 years ago. You can find nowhere on earth where they were discussing the sophisticated concepts like democracy and ethics, etc. in a formal manner until the ancient Greeks.

So all the evolution of the human species revolves around learning. There is no biological evolution taking place right now. The world is become a big mixing bowl as it should be. That gives us hybrid vigor which all biologists are very respectful of.

There was a lot of intelligent philosophy in the East, but it never seem to result in democracy.

There are two time periods when intellectual enlightenment exploded. One was right after the ancient Greeks started writing books, and the second was after Gutenberg invented movable type. That is a historical fact.

In the East, both Korea and China did invent movable type, but the Koreans destroyed it after they used it for the monarchy, and in China it was held tightly inside the dynasty. China also did not allow different lines of thought to coordinate. That impeded them in their intellectual development, although their concepts of enlightenment were pretty amazing, but just very hard to organize and quantify.

But today one can see how the Asians philosophical foundation, as opposed to the West's dogma, is aiding them greatly as they surge ahead of the world intellectually in certain instances
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