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The Birth of Art & Death, Third Installment: The Morphology of the Two Cultures

The Birth of Art & Death, Third Installment: The Morphology of the Two Cultures

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Cultural Collision

There were two cultural amoebae, then—borrowing a term from Oswald Spengler’s final work The Dawn of World History: the Neanderthal amoeba spans a great arc, West to East, from Spain across Europe and down into Palestine. The modern Homo sapiens amoeba moves from south to north out of East Africa and up into Palestine and then crosses …

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