04.15.06
Axial Age and Eonic Model
A review of Armstrong’s The Great Transformation almost gets the point, and sees where she has gone wrong by smearing out the Axial data backwards and forwards. Then the reviewer derails with some speculations about the Ice Age.
EVERYONE IS DETERMINED TO GET IT WRONG.
You just won’t get it straight without my eonic model, nor will a synthesis of the Axial diversity be of any help.
Eonic Effect.
A cultural phenomenon that spans the world’s largest land mass over several centuries needs a powerful explanation. Historians of “big history” (the history of Earth, of humans and their predecessors) call such explanations “prime movers.” The Great Transformation spins a big tale, but its narrow explanatory basis falls short of the requisite big picture.