“Any
intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in
the opposite direction.”
― E.F. Schumacher
This
week’s Link of the Week is a podcast from the McAlvany Weekly
Commentary, a long running program touching mostly on economics, geopolitics,
and current events.
This I picked in particular because of the guest, Dr. Joseph Tainter, the author of the book
The Collapse of Complex Societies. His book and his work delves into
the role that complexity has in the success and failure of societies,
and how societies over time tend to increase in
complexity to such a degree that it introduces a fragility into the
system, making them vulnerable to shocks and events that they would have
shrugged off in years past in a simpler state. Something worth
pondering given the unprecedented complexity that represents
modern Western society and economies…
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