2/of capital and social organization that had taken hold. There would then be a bunch of "Van Halenists" in battle with some other group.
Maybe the Austrian Artist got into art school. Or Ayn Rand had stayed Alisa Rosenbaum and never made it out of Russia. The 20th century as we knew it would have played out very differently.
Some might argue the same forces would have come to blows, but it still would have played out differently.
All this is to suggest that ideas and timing matter immensely.