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Chaos Leads Creative Innovation Written by John Song
Chaos is a source of creation. Chaos is a power that transforms an old reality to a new one. Chaos is where a new leadership emerges.
Black Plague, the Mother of Renaissance In the 14th century in Europe, black plague killed approximately 75 million to 200 million people. This number translates to about 30% to 60% of the European population at that time. Simply, at least one or two people died out of three through this period. This epidemic event disrupted the whole Europe in many significant ways and eventually resulted in creating totally new environments.
Firstly, it changed the labor force structure. Cheap and low quality labor force was destroyed, pushing labor cost much higher exponentially than before. Thus, people had to find out ways to avoid needs for intensive human labor and had to devise a way to find technical solutions to manufacture and produce things. Leonardo Da Vinci was the most prominent inventor who discovered many scientific truths about humans and also designed inventive machines and objects, including parachutes and
submarines. Gutenberg’s metal imprints were a direct result of necessity to print books at low cost. Secondly, it forced people to change their perception on their religious faith; they realized that religious faith could not save even any saint person. Black plague killed priests and laymen alike. People couldn’t see clear evidence that God saved pious religious people. What they saw was mercilessness that penetrated through their society under seemingly indifferent negligence of VIA CANADA
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