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Then came the mercantile age, of contract and transactional exchange, marketplaces and social capital.
All cultural history became suddenly available all at once - or so it seemed. Information simultaneously eternal and ephemeral, appearing one moment, disappearing the next.
Such surfeit led inevitably to devaluation, for in a situation of endless excess and overabundance, objects and people became interchangeable, uprooted from history, with many unable to locate their own thoughts in time and space.
