Discovering The New World boosted the culture and the economy of Europe on the eve of the industrial revolution. Demographic growth stimulated migration to cities. The British forests' depletion led to the use of British coal and thus the improvement of steam machinery.
Any research for the cause of the industrial revolution is doomed to failure, because there is no single or primary cause.
The greater the divorce of producer from consumer, the more increased the market dominance.This separation resulted in many of the pressures that led to standardization, specialization, synchronization and centralization. It is the cause of differentiation of roles and temperament of the two sexes.
The Second Wave civilization has not only changed the technique, nature and culture. It changed personality, helping to create a new social character. Industrial man has struggled to earn a living, to understand that the earth and the clock hand lead him without going back to the future, to the grave. The Second Wave changed the familiar sounds, replacing the cock with the factory siren and the crickets' song with cars tires' gnashing, lighted the night, extended the hours of wakefulness, brought pictures of the sky, montage cinema or biological forms revealed for the first time by strong microscopes. The smell of wet earth had been replaced by the smell of gasoline. Meat and vegetables' taste changed.The same thing happened to the human body which reached the today's normal stature. Starting with the Second Wave nakedness began to be shameful. From a time in which it was a pleasure to see a dead animal on the table things changed to one in which any sign that would remember how that had to do with the death of an animal should be avoided.Marriage became more than just an economic relief. Despite major economic crisis and a terrible waste of human lives, the civilization of the Second Wave clearly improved the material life of the common man, but caused violent and external consequences, unforeseen side effects, including excessive damage perhaps irreparable of the fragile biosphere. Civilization of the Second Wave did more havoc in the environment than any other time prior.The second wave was a bitter-sweet moment in eternity that would shape the rest of our lives but if you listen carefully, you can hear the Third Wave rolling on the not very distant shores.
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