Every country absorbs industrialization into its own tradition. This applies to nationalism as well. Or acquisition of knowledge. How would Hegel approach this concept?
Individual acts: how do we decide to industrialize?
1. Desire. But where does it go? Who has it? Does the possessor become the actor?
Societal elements prior to industrialization and after. National industrialization vs. localized/focused/isolated.
Why does the corporeal understanding of state-self, coincide with marked industrialization?
1. At the point of national industrialization, we are corporeal. We have an understanding of who we are in words, and have more commonalities to differentiate us from those who oppose us.
2. Because we have reached a stage of collectiveness, we have a body of myth which defines us. The largest element of this is language. The second largest is reality. At one point reality was larger. Language supersedes that at the advent of thought, which makes our environment descriptive.
It is through description that we attain understanding. The final product of understanding is knowledge. This marks the departure of our cogitative, human selves from nature, as our interactions with it become more and more proactive rather than reactive.
Why does technology come about at all?
- Initial tech is reactive—we did not know of clubs or contusions, but we observed these phenomena and described them in terms of our own understanding of them. This enabled descriptive processes that in turn enabled “advancement.”
- Advancement is use of the descriptive faculty of human thought to test understanding in the face of a new desire. This new desire can be: urgency, curiosity, or general necessity.
Why did irrigation technology come about?
-Perhaps the exact formation of that epistemological construct cannot be illustrated in the absolute, but a sort of the aforementioned can be conjectured. Technology advances in differing degrees depending upon strengths and forms of desires, determined by descriptive existences determined by the environment. Someone living in the desert would be more driven in cultivation tech due to his understanding of his environment versus someone living in a rich forest with a strong curiosity in that field. The resultant development, even if treating an identical desire as its object, will differ again depending upon descriptive understanding resultant from that environment.
Look at the differing paths taken by cooking alone—satisfying a basic need to eat, but transformed drastically based on environmental obstacles to realizing that desire as parsed through descriptive faculties. This brings me to my next point: the collective impetus.
In order to maximize survival—a fulfillment of desire at a controllable degree—humans will congregate and adapt where this is most realizable. This brings about the emergence of society—a body where scarcity of satients can be offset by collective action. This collective action is essentially a developed tech that relies on varying degress of ingenuity.
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