Whenever a modern uncontacted tribe is found, it seems curiously consistent that they are barely even agricultural at best-much less even up to pace with most of the world’s society. What makes it so we never seem to discover unheard of industrial societies? They had as much time as anyone else to have come to the same conclusions. What causes one group to be splitting atoms while the other is still using bows and arrows?
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First of all they needed to discover agriculture so they can have towns and cities. That means that there must be a crop present that they can cultivate and grow to feed themselves off. Otherwise they are forced to hunt for food that means that you cant really build a town as what is the point of it? You are moving around all the time anyway hunting animals.
That is step one, secondly in a society you need to have incentives for things to be done. That comes with private property which is a fairly new idea even in the modern countries. We didnt get private property until Mercantilism which began around 1600s, this slowly compounded over the years letter people and families save up resources by spending less then they earned.
This later exploded in the industrial revolution which was the first step towards a better life for everyone, as food began to be able to be mass produced.
So far we have only talked about one aspect really, the other aspect is in philosophy actually, it was the rise of the enlightenment where we managed to figure out logic in a formalized way so we could actively find faults in the reasoning behind things. This gave us science that works, that has to be able to be reproduced where everyone can criticize it.
Science doesnt prove things, it disproves things, it tells us what is wrong with different ideas so we can discard ideas that doesnt work with the evidence we have.
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