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Has Our Luck Finally Run Out?

Has Our Luck Finally Run Out? We are woefully unprepared for a long run of bad luck. Long-term cycles escape our notice because they play out over many years or even decades; few noticed the decreasing rainfall in the Mediterranean region in 150 A.D. but this gradual decline in rainfall slowly but surely reduced the grain […]

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What If All the Cheap Stuff Goes Away?

What If All the Cheap Stuff Goes Away? Nothing stays the same in dynamic systems, and it’s inevitable that the current glut of low costs / cheap stuff will give way to scarcities that cannot be filled at current low prices. One of the books I just finished reading is The Fate of Rome: Climate, […]

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US fall from virtuous republic to tragic-comic empire described perfectly by Roman historians

US fall from virtuous republic to tragic-comic empire described perfectly by Roman historians The ancient Greek historian, Polybius, celebrated the Roman republic of ~ 150 BC under its constitution with balance of powers among the Senate, two elected consuls, and the general citizens: “Such being the power that each part has of hampering the others or co-operating with them, their union […]

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Olduvai IV: Courage
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Olduvai II: Exodus
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