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14. Nuancing the Stage Theory Discussion (w/ Zak Stein)

Metamodern Spirituality

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The Social Cultural Component of Humanity

For a long time, there was an intuitive sense that at least civilizations, if not humanity, went through some kind of arc, like a life cycle. Then when darwin came and others, and he got the evolutionary view, i got more specific. And then it got so specific that you started getting these very detailed stages of socio cultural development. Tila: It's classically framed as the ant recapitulating philogeny issue. Do the developmental processes that characterize the single human from embryo to adult also characterize the humanity itself too? The answer is yes.

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