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The book is Goliath's Curse by Luke Kemp. I am hopeful for this one, most generalizations about collapse are not very good, they rely on avoiding the details of
by Isamu 11mo ago
The book is Goliath's Curse by Luke Kemp. I am hopeful for this one, most generalizations about collapse are not very good, they rely on avoiding the details of history and instead make sweeping generalizations.
Collapse is one of those tropes that is poorly treated, popular among people who aren’t interested in the details of history and only some grand lesson or some justification for some feeling in their gut about impending doom.
- api 11mo agoA major bias we have in thinking about collapse is the one we get from fiction, like disaster movies. Most collapses are very gradual from the perspective of living people. They occur over at least generations. Extremely rapid apocalyptic collapse is very rare and usually caused by things like natural disasters, disease, or wars.