tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post5455691053529194184..comments2024-03-23T04:01:39.348-04:00Comments on Understanding Society: Large structures and social changeDan Littlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15953897221283103880noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-59732226657842957432016-04-24T23:08:00.677-04:002016-04-24T23:08:00.677-04:00Fascinating stuff. Maybe our focus is wrong altog...Fascinating stuff. Maybe our focus is wrong altogether, and the pride of place given to capitalism is the very problem. We are a long way, in the text above, from La Longue Durée, but maybe capitalism is a secondary trait, a syndrone, if you like, which can display different symptoms in different cases, but is internally consistent in its overall "attack". As long as one is examining what is going on within the syndrone, one can never find the answer, because the syndrome itself is a byproduct of a more fundamental cause. Maybe it is the land, pace Braudel, or, perhaps, tracking without actully following Weber or Tawney, it is the Black Plague and its mutation into a kind of viral individualism.Marian Rucciushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12944531845226157076noreply@blogger.com