Building autonomous objective culture resembles economic takeoff into self-sustaining growth

Evidence

The most rudimentary act of conscious adaptation involves a creative forming of the elements of protoculture. The transformation of protoculture into the forms of autonomous objective culture involves a massive creative effort, sustained over generations, of an order that one might compare to what some economists describe in speaking of a “takeoff” into self-sustaining economic growth. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 87

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Urban growth past a threshold produces self-reinforcing cosmopolitan expansion that transforms quantity into quality — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 757; Objective culture grows far faster than subjective individual culture — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 760; Objective and subjective culture are distinct measurable phenomena — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 564 (+5 more)

Related

• Objective and subjective culture are distinct measurable phenomena (similarity 0.82)
• Objective and subjective culture grow by fundamentally different logics (similarity 0.80)
• Urban growth past a threshold produces self-reinforcing cosmopolitan expansion that transforms quantity into quality (similarity 0.80)
• Subjective and objective culture necessarily oppose each other (similarity 0.79)