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== Genesis ==

== Genesis ==

He argues that "self-determining" [[civilizations]] are born (out of more primitive [[societies]]), not due to racial or environmental factors, but as a response to ''challenges'', such as hard country, new ground, blows and pressures from other civilizations, and penalizations.  He argues that for civilizations to be born, the challenge must be a golden mean; that excessive challenge will crush the civilization, and too little challenge will cause it to stagnate.

He argues that "self-determining" [[civilization]]s are born (out of more primitive [[society|societies]]), not due to racial or environmental factors, but as a response to ''challenges'', such as hard country, new ground, blows and pressures from other civilizations, and penalizations.  He argues that for civilizations to be born, the challenge must be a golden mean; that excessive challenge will crush the civilization, and too little challenge will cause it to stagnate.

He argues that civilizations continue to grow only when they meet one challenge only to be met by another.  In 1939 Toynbee wrote 'the challenge of being called upon to create a political world-order, the framework for an economic world-order...now confronts our Modern Western society' [http://nobsblog.blogspot.com/1999/03/ii-genesis-of-civilizations.html#V.C.II.(b),p.364,n.1].  He argues that civilizations develop in different ways due to their different environment and different approaches to the challenges they face.  He argues that growth is driven by "Creative Minorities," find solutions to the challenges, which others then follow by example, called ''[[mimesis]]'', i.e. ''mimeing''.

He argues that civilizations continue to grow only when they meet one challenge only to be met by another.  In 1939 Toynbee wrote 'the challenge of being called upon to create a political world-order, the framework for an economic world-order...now confronts our Modern Western society' [http://nobsblog.blogspot.com/1999/03/ii-genesis-of-civilizations.html#V.C.II.(b),p.364,n.1].  He argues that civilizations develop in different ways due to their different environment and different approaches to the challenges they face.  He argues that growth is driven by "Creative Minorities," find solutions to the challenges, which others then follow by example, called ''[[mimesis]]'', i.e. ''mimeing''.