05.21.09
Confusions of historical, evolutionary and economic theories
One of the confusions of economics and social theory is the inability to separate or sort out purely historical, evolutionary, and economic forms of explanation, and the tendency to consider history in terms of economic laws was criticized, then unaccountably, made stronger by Marx with his surely inocrrect hard generalizations of historical materialism.
In looking at the eonic model, the separation of economic factors and a larger spectrum of social/cultural factors is a basic starting point: Econostream, Technostream,…And Eonic Sequence
One of the fallacies is the overestimation of the Industrial Revolution, and the need to see the larger set of evolutionary emergents that make up modernity. The Industrial Revolution is a massive earthquake in the middle of modernity, but it doesn’t follow that it is a prime determinant of modernity’s basic character which had already come into existence in embryo well before that economic convulsion.