Samo Burja
Person on 4 sites
Founder of the consultancy Bismarck Analysis and author of Great Founder Theory, writing about how institutions are built, how they decay, and why…
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5 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
Who people, organisations and podcasts are, and how they connect, with sources.
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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12 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Civilisational collapse can be fast: the Late Bronze Age shows a society coming apart over years rather than centuries. (opens korrents.com)
“Though we usually think of collapse as a slow process, it can in fact happen very quickly, as was the case with the Late Bronze Age collapse.”
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Societies rarely recognise their own collapse while it is happening: Roman and Mayan thinkers left almost no reflection on theirs. (opens korrents.com)
“Despite being an excellent epistemic opportunity, civilizational collapse seldom inspires introspection among thinkers living through it. Mayan or Roman thinkers don’t seem to have reflected on their ongoing collapse.”
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In a dysfunctional society the loss of working knowledge becomes routine, and attempts to reverse-engineer what was lost do not always succeed. (opens korrents.com)
“That knowledge never should have been lost in the first place, but in a dysfunctional society, such loss of knowledge becomes the rule.”
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Civilisational collapse can be fast: the Late Bronze Age shows a society coming apart over years rather than centuries. (opens korrents.com)
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8 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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How to Read a Book (opens rcmnd.app)
“This book convinced me that while skimming was perhaps useful for mining information, it would never be a viable path to rigor. Adler advocates a disciplined and deep reading of challenging books.”
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The Republic (opens rcmnd.app)
“A design for the creation of a new ideal society, the ultimate aim of sociological investigation. Plato’s work is a nice example of both the strengths and the limits of a theory-driven approach.”
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History of the Peloponnesian War (opens rcmnd.app)
“The ultimate primary source. Thucydides fought as a general during the Peloponnesian war and was ultimately exiled from Athens due to political machination.”
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How to Read a Book (opens rcmnd.app)