Look, I don't really want to get into arguments about whether or not our universe is conducted by a pre-determined series of events.
Fact of the matter that even if that is the case, geography alone is not enough to pre-ordain a sequence of events. Entropy is an important aspect of the universe.
That's getting a bit too out there for me though. I'm a communist because I believe in the ability for us as humans to be able to improve things, and believing that everything has already been determined is counter-productive to that.
The start of our conversation was about material conditions not being the same thing as physical geography, which is true - unless you think that the universe has been pre-ordained. If that's what you want to believe then good on you, and I won't stop you, but it's not really a productive stance to take in my opinion, especially when it puts you in the historical analysis camp of Jared Diamond.
Plants and algae get their energy from the sun and feed all other life on earth. When the sun goes out, so does life. There's no stopping entropy.
nit picking
Except chemosynthetic life which gets its energy from geothermic vents, which are powered indirectly by the earth's radioactive core, which will also one day go out.
I'm not a student of theoretical physics, nor am I a Calvinist, and I am certainly not nearly high enough to begin digging into the meat of predeterminism with you.
The point of me commenting was to say that there is more to historical materialism than analyzing physical geography, and I will leave it at that.
Look, I don't really want to get into arguments about whether or not our universe is conducted by a pre-determined series of events.
Fact of the matter that even if that is the case, geography alone is not enough to pre-ordain a sequence of events. Entropy is an important aspect of the universe.
That's getting a bit too out there for me though. I'm a communist because I believe in the ability for us as humans to be able to improve things, and believing that everything has already been determined is counter-productive to that.
The start of our conversation was about material conditions not being the same thing as physical geography, which is true - unless you think that the universe has been pre-ordained. If that's what you want to believe then good on you, and I won't stop you, but it's not really a productive stance to take in my opinion, especially when it puts you in the historical analysis camp of Jared Diamond.
life is anti-entropic
but yea
it isn't tho
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Plants and algae get their energy from the sun and feed all other life on earth. When the sun goes out, so does life. There's no stopping entropy.
nit picking
Except chemosynthetic life which gets its energy from geothermic vents, which are powered indirectly by the earth's radioactive core, which will also one day go out.
I'm not a student of theoretical physics, nor am I a Calvinist, and I am certainly not nearly high enough to begin digging into the meat of predeterminism with you.
The point of me commenting was to say that there is more to historical materialism than analyzing physical geography, and I will leave it at that.