[ExI] Islamic culture (current) was Religions and violence >

[John Grigg]

Keith,

you wrote:
Diamond is an excellent writer.  You should read GG&S plus his more
recent book Collapse.   But he doesn't have a handle on such topics as
EP.  Nor does he have solutions of the engineering/Extropian kind.
>>>

I wish you would bite the bullet and come out with your own book on
these subjects.

John  : )


On 8/2/10, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 5:00 AM,  Tomasz Rola <rtomek at ceti.pl> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Keith Henson wrote:
>>
>>> As you point out, Islamic culture was more advanced than western
>>> culture at one time.  The question is not so much about Muslims being
>>> held back but why western culture (Jews included) shot ahead.  Clark
>>> calls this the great divergence and it is the major characteristic of
>>> the world since the industrial revolution.
>>
>> Funny, I ask myself this question from time to time. Maybe I will find the
>> answer in "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared
>> Diamond (when I find some time for it).
>
> Diamond is an excellent writer.  You should read GG&S plus his more
> recent book Collapse.   But he doesn't have a handle on such topics as
> EP.  Nor does he have solutions of the engineering/Extropian kind.
>
> Keith
>
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