Why most planetary civilizations collapse I didn’t get into video games until I was in my 40s. Oddly enough, it was a historian who triggered my interest. Niall Ferguson, the bestselling author, columnist, TV personality and Stanford professor, penned a 2006 New York Magazine piece, “How to Win a War,” that persuasively extolled the … Continue reading "THE LAST HISTORY AND THE END OF MAN"| Thoughts of Stone
Don’t overlook social stratifications This is a just a brief, minor note about an aspect of human populations that seems to be overlooked much of the time in popular discourse, namely the existence within countries of distinct strata of individuals. In discussions about the United States, this stratification is less overlooked, given the country’s … Continue reading "THE STRATA OF NATIONS"| Thoughts of Stone
The Great Awokening as a social mania In prior essays on this site and elsewhere, I’ve argued that the spread of wokeness and its recent marked intensification (the “Great Awokening”) is best seen as a social contagion—of feelings and sociocultural ideas that broadly reflect women’s maternal instincts, and are much more transmissible among women than … Continue reading "A SPIRALING FRENZY"| Thoughts of Stone
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