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Essays tagged “modern society”. Follow an idea across the archive.
Scott discusses comments on his previous post about liberalism and communities, exploring various perspectives on how wealth and societal structures affect community formation and maintenance.
This review examines Joseph Tainter's theory of societal collapse due to diminishing returns on complexity, critiquing aspects of the model and attempting to apply it to modern contexts.
The post satirically portrays ancient concepts as 'modern pathologies' to criticize aspects of contemporary society.