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B. Industry

Before industrialism, there was a merchant-driven society in which feudalism arose: the habit of assigning the privileges and wealth to a centralized aristocracy responsible to a king who handled defense of a collected group of territories. Thus the tribal system of kings and knights was converted into a centralized political agency, and the "national" state converted from a racial measurement to one of participation in an economy. The old values were driven out by Christianity, which had taken Europe by storm from the lower classes upwards, with guilt as its primary weapon. Those who succeeded felt themselves lesser than those who had declared themselves harmless, and so joined the parade until the wealthy were Christian also, and thus, needing a method of justification for their wealth, bent the religion to fit their goals. Somehow the Church did not object, nor did the more "materialistic" Jews.

After technology entered the picture with the invention of machines which propelled themselves independently of any animal investing work, the system of feudalism began to take on a new life as the social counterpart to the "industrial revolution." Since technology made the work of conquering nature easy, it was no longer required to have the pretense of more intelligent or noble leaders, so rapidly (through a series of revolutions including the French and American) the power shifted to a system of businesses and individual workers (proto-serfs) governed by a purely political agency that oversaw only general legal, social and economic concerns.

The final mutation of business occurred with changes in government brought about by mass transit and intercontinental communication, namely that of the nation-state as created under feudalism becoming the modern political "nation," which essentially amounts to an office for central control of all economic resources within a politically-defined national border. No longer did nation imply that people were related by blood and culture, although these traditions for the most part carry on today. No longer was the country a goal in itself; profit was the goal, and the nation, the conduit.

Since there was a need for both workers and a justification of profit motive, individualism was embraced in an untitled and primitive form by the first capitalists, who pointed to their own success as proof that "anyone can do it." The individualist concept got a major boost when nations, tiring of the money-grabbing that was causing their political heads of state to be usurped routinely, began implementing republican democracy as a means of slowing political change and allowing business greater flexibility to work around absolute leaders. The result was that capitalism and democracy were united in the public eye, and by propaganda from various governments, as being "benevolent" and "moral" in comparison to governmental systems that denied "freedom," e.g. the methods of earning money for the individual.

Industry carried with it technology, which complemented the bureaucratic governmental systems of the time with a new form of standardization: the need for uniform measurements and "mental containers" with which to organize people, groups and legal or social rules. With this also came a need to understand a strict linear causality, such as Object A strikes Object B, which made coherent sense given the precondition of absolute free will required for Judeo-Christian morality, and easily described technological operations and principles without concern for collateral workings or effects. Because of this strict division of reality, it henceforth became known that all people could be punished for their actions in political or economic spheres, and that the largest area in any filing system would be the "miscellaneous" grouping.