After all, in the end all the great moments of history have taken place inside people's heads. The moments of change, or the clinamen as the Greeks called it.
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This quote from Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Years of Rice and Salt" encapsulates a profound truth about the nature of historical change. It emphasizes that the pivotal shifts we celebrate in history books—the revolutions, discoveries, and paradigm shifts—are fundamentally rooted in human thought and perception. The "great moments of history" do not merely occur as external events; they are birthed within the human mind. The reference to the "clinamen," a concept...
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