Skip to content Menu

Séamus Sweeney

Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda

Sidebar
  • Home
  • About
  • Extinct in Ireland
  • On Silence
  • Rogues

Tag: tainter

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…

Continue Reading
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…

Continue Reading
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…

Continue Reading
Posted on June 10, 2016

From “The Collapse of Complex Societies” by Joseph A Tainter

The citizens of modern complex societies usually do not realise that we are an anomaly of history. Throughout the several million years that recognisable humans are known to have lived,…

Continue Reading
Website Powered by WordPress.com.
Top

Archives

Recent Posts

  • Palm Sunday thoughts from a City Priest
  • (no title)
  • Seamus at Herge museum 20.06.19
  • (no title)
  • University observer

Top Posts & Pages

  • "Sancte Michael Archangele, defende nos in proelio" - plainchant setting of Prayer to St Michael the Archangel from Heiligenkreuz Abbey
  • "The Best Lack All Conviction, while the Worst / Are Full Of Passionate Intensity"
  • "Still on patrol"
  • I have been using "cf." wrongly for my entire life
  • The "lazy and indifferent" heron of "Monday or Tuesday", Virginia Woolf
  • Fifty Years On: "I Heard the Owl Call My Name", Margaret Craven
  • "Teach us to care and not to care/ Teach us to sit still." Ash Wednesday
  • Jarod Gott on Tinder, writing and the presentation of the self
  • August 4th: Feast of St Sithney, patron saint of mad dogs
  • Poem on Ballymanus Mine Disaster, 1943

Posts from “A Medical Education” (sister blog of medical writing): A Medical Education

Underwear that counts steps, tracks calories, monitors sleep? Count me in!

Medical watches

Utako Okamoto 1st April 1918 – 21st April 2016

Core Emergency Medicine Podcast on V Fib and Pulseless V Tachy

Give TXA now!

Follow Séamus Sweeney on WordPress.com

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets
  • Follow Following
    • Séamus Sweeney
    • Join 627 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Séamus Sweeney
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...