The last larger line shows the model in the context of time where the discrete periods where human economic eras occurred and when worldview shifted and was changed during humanities three economic eras. The reason why agricultural era is labeled and the other two use abbreviations is for the simple reason in that we have a fairly detailed understanding of the agricultural era due to all of the historical focus and study for that era. Since it is well known and complete we can see the changes in worldview fairly clearly and are able use those timeframes as a template for what potentially occurred in the hunter-gatherer era as well as what may happen in the current industrial era (from the Industrial Revolution onward).

Something must have broken the symmetry in human worldview patterns which were adopted universally around the world in agricultural societies during antiquity and it is my assertion that what that symmetry breaker was and is – is the techno-economic changes wrought upon human societies. That assertion is not only made by me alone but also by the archeologists such as David Lewis-Williams and David Pearce in the seminal book: Inside of the Neolithic Mind. They clearly point out that the inherited worldviews did not change in the Neolithic period. Those techno-economic changes affect the world so fundamentally that worldviews held for thousands of years during what I have termed the inheritance period are suddenly re-examined (during the impact period) and then almost completely changed during the update period. What then follows is the period where the newly updated worldviews are woven into virtually every fabric of societal thinking as the basis for everything from worldview to humanities laws to govern during the transmission period.

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