The most retarded, and my personal favorite, was the Reformation.
That is the pinnacle of cultural retardation.
A wealth of other backwardnesses followed from this font et origine.
Let's call it a sort of spiral of unravelling, call it history unravelling.... not a cyclical thing, a S & H thing, at all.
It coincided with a revolution in print technology. See Paul Starr, The Creation of the Media
A huge technological advance facilitating a colossal retardation step, for the West!
"Just over the mental horizon of most economic historians..................." J C D Clark
"Just over the mental horizon of most economic historians..................." J C D Clark
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