Indigenous Quote by David Christian

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“All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.”

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“the conquests of the Achaemenid and Hellenistic dynasties encouraged commercial and intellectual exchanges reaching from central Asia to India to the western Mediterranean. In…

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“So, as networks expand in size, their potential intellectual synergy increases much faster: “larger and denser populations equal faster technological advance.”

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“no complex, nonlinear system can be adequately described by dividing it up into subsystems or into various aspects, defined beforehand.”

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“Both animal and human slaves could be controlled best if kept economically and psychically dependent on their owners.”

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“contain into new, durable configurations, which can handle huge energy flows without disintegrating. This, we will see, is the characteristic pattern of all such…

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We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility.

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