In the shadow of the state (1) - by Lorenzo Warby
Thinking through the paradox of polities: the state as protector and predator.| www.lorenzofromoz.net
Thinking through the paradox of polities: the state as protector and predator.| www.lorenzofromoz.net
Homo sapiens have never worked out how to have demographically sustainable cities at scale.| www.lorenzofromoz.net
That encourage sloppy thinking and the degradation of what works in the name of what doesn’t work. Profit is income from successful discovery, coordination and risk management, not capital.| www.lorenzofromoz.net
Perception does not require consciousness.| www.lorenzofromoz.net
Reflections on Sinic Korea & Vietnam, Indic Thailand, the dilemmas of Xi, the politics of activist bureaucratisation, and traditions of Chinese statecraft.| www.lorenzofromoz.net
China as a networks and connections society.| www.lorenzofromoz.net
Stigmatising facts leads to bad, potentially disastrous, decisions.| www.lorenzofromoz.net
An individualist social psychology can arise when families are not embedded in larger kin-groups.| www.lorenzofromoz.net
Avoiding premature dissent and why bait-and-switch is endemic to progressive politics.| www.lorenzofromoz.net
Signalling and selection, not direction.| www.lorenzofromoz.net
Putting the out-of-Europe expansion in context.| www.lorenzofromoz.net
They merely require strategic responses to differing constraints.| www.lorenzofromoz.net
Refusing to grapple with the metastasising of their own political tradition.| www.lorenzofromoz.net
About the UK 2024 general election.| www.lorenzofromoz.net
An imperial city.| www.lorenzofromoz.net
Women are not a finer form of Homo sapien. (I)| www.lorenzofromoz.net
But none of us can afford feral, catastrophising activism.| www.lorenzofromoz.net
The trouble with fighting networks.| www.lorenzofromoz.net
Of moral arrogance, self-serving reductionism and the displacement of custodianship.| www.lorenzofromoz.net
The network organisational weapon.| www.lorenzofromoz.net
