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Coming from academia, one thing I've found is that if a man spends his life studying bees, he starts seeing secret "queens" in his own society. Like a lot of t
by drewbuschhorn 10y ago
Coming from academia, one thing I've found is that if a man spends his life studying bees, he starts seeing secret "queens" in his own society.
Like a lot of transposed cultural anthropology, this seems like a moral "just so" story. I don't question the archaeology, but I do question how generally applicable it is. Every successful society is the same, each dysfunctional one is dysfunctional in its own way.
- Ygg2 10y agoI don't know. I am not studying societal collapse, but it still seems like the world is going downhill.
- johan_larson 10y agoWould you really rather live in your parents' or grandparents' time? I wouldn't. My grandparents lived through two or three shooting wars and a hard reconstruction. My parents lived through the Cold War, when the prospect of nuclear war was very real. By comparison, we are living in a very benign era. The 21st century is playing the game of life in easy mode.
- stefs 10y agopeople have believed this since the very beginning. even though, right now, we live in one of the most peaceful periods ever. world hunger has been drastically reduced. most people live safer lives than ever before (crime, health).