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22 Mar 2023 Conversations with Tyler Tom Holland on History, Christianity, and the Value of the Countryside
“A Big Dig, I would guess, is much easier to do in — I don’t know — Vegas or Houston than in Boston because Boston is just a very old city, in exactly the way that Manchester is in Britain, or Lyon or somewhere.”
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- 22 Mar 2023
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…They called it the Big Dig. The Big Dig. A Big Dig, I would guess, is much easier to do in — I don’t know — Vegas or Houston than in Boston because Boston is just a very old city, in exactly the way that Manchester is in Britain, or Lyon or somewhere. They’re not quite as old as Lyon, but it is always easier to develop technology, I think, in areas where you don’t have stuff already there. That’s one of the reasons why, over the course of the 19th century, the industrial elite moves from Britain to America and to Germany. There are doubtless all kinds of sociological reasons that I’m not qualified to opine about, but one of the reasons must be that Britain enters the Industrial Revolution first. Its industrial infrastructure, by definition, is older than that that comes to be developed by the Americans or, say, the Germans. Are you yourself ultimately a gnostic?…
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