every story is a degrowth story
For February, the Contraptions Book club is reading Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires by David Chaffetz, to be discussed the week of February 24. The chat thread is open for early comments. Three big, unmanaged forces of destruction and creation are irrupting into ...
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We live in the legacy of stories created generations ago. All of us inevitably perpetuate stories; no one, really, is to blame. Once a story is widely held and deeply rooted, this in turn shapes all further institutional and individual possibilities and actions.
The Austro-Germanic school of fatalism (Spengler, Schumpeter) says that decline is inevitable. Empires will always ossify, a David will always rise to slay Goliath, and so it goes. Is that cycle of creative destruction truly inevitable? What’s an empire to do? Bush and Vail understood that the doomsday cycle is not inevitable, and that the best cha
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