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Looking at all of human history, these kinds of analyses being wrong is the anomaly. Humans were riding the edge of a Malthusian catastrophe through most of his
by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Looking at all of human history, these kinds of analyses being wrong is the anomaly. Humans were riding the edge of a Malthusian catastrophe through most of history and that didn't really change until the industrial revolution — at least for some of us.
It is naïve to think that this can't happen again.
- Nasrudith 1y agoThat sounds more like Malthusianism is a memetic fixation based upon past collective trauma than an assessment of actual conditions. It isn't anything rational, just an Idée fixe The assessment should change with the industrial revolution, specialization to allow understanding, and great increase of power availability. This isn't even like the Bronze Age collapse.