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Posted on July 23, 2018

Joseph Tainter: “People have to take responsibility for knowing and understanding the predicament we’re facing “

From this interview with Joseph Tainter: And so individuals need to take responsibility for their own ignorance. As I said, our species did not evolve to think broadly in terms…

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Posted on August 7, 2017

“Ample food and sleep” : A thought on retrospective diagnosis, visions and full bellies

From Geoffrey Moorhouse’s fine bookSun Dancing A clinical diagnosis of Aedh’s erotic and other visions would doubtless have concluded that , whatever shaped them in his psyche, they were triggered…

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Posted on December 29, 2016December 29, 2016

Decomplexifying Society – Joseph Tainter, George Monbiot, Paul Arbair, John Harris

A while back I posted some thoughts on Joseph Tainter’s “The Collapse of Complex Societies”. which, coincidentally, I finished in the week of the Brexit poll. The French writer Paul Arbair…

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Posted on June 30, 2016February 6, 2017

The Collapse of Complex Societies – Joseph Tainter

Somewhere along the way I came across references to Joseph Tainter’s The Collapse of Complex Societies and finally read it in recent weeks. Tainter’s prose style reminded me a little of John…

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