System Failure

System Failure

Magic & Revolution

The Heresy That Drives Human History

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Nathan Knopp
Feb 27, 2024
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I. Introduction

Everything is about economics, even our bedrock conceptions of reality itself. When the slave economy of the Roman Empire collapsed, Christianity replaced a pagan conception of reality. A thousand years later, when the peasant economy of the Middle Ages ended, science replaced that Christianity. Both Christianity and science began as scra…

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