Reading Notes for Jared Diamond’s Collapse

Political foolishness is a desire for power, Tahsi called this "the most common of all passions." As

Question 1: Why do some societies make catastrophic decisions? A: due to group decision failure

Question 2: Why does the group determination process fail? A: Because of conflict of interest

Question 3: Why is there a conflict of interest? A: Some people think that they can gain more profits by hurting other people while helping them.

Question 5: Why does competition intensify? A: The leader scrambles forces by seeing who can make the biggest statue.

Question 6: Why is this related to today's sustainability problem? A: Because politicians are the same as tribal leaders.

Question 7: What will politicians today compete for? A: Who can offer people the biggest fake promise, the greatest taste, or the biggest fake enemy?

Question 8: Why is this better than telling them the truth? A: The size of the lie is exaggerated. The size of the fact can not be done

Question 9: Why is a lie effective? A: Because not all lies were discovered. The heart can not distinguish between the unknown lie and the truth

Question 10: Why did not you find most political lies? A: It is extremely complicated because the people's ability to detect political fraud is low. The ability to detect political fraud is about 20%

Question 11: Why do we make unknown lies that (politicians) give more supporters than (good) politicians of truth? Answer: The corrupt politicians succeeded in exaggerating the amounts expected from them from their supporters, and good politicians did not

Question 12: Why can not this be done forever? A: You will notice that final supporters of corrupt politicians began to extensively harm because politicians have not achieved what they have promised and / or because of side effects. This possibility is very reliable, so downward competition is periodic

Because of "plunder of power", it was up to the "spiral with intense competition".

Appropriate security desire, but end in 587 Smith, the desire for the kingdom, 588 desires from 101, worthless 88,589 twists. Choose how society fails or succeed (New York: Penguin Books, 2005) Learn more about Pitcane and the society that controls and lacks selfish tendencies that lead to collapse and prosperity Please learn. Clarification of the principle of egoism, promotion of motive for profit, reliance on competitiveness, and placement of property in human rights - the impulse of private interests, all the businesses, entertainment, religion, Often invalidate things. , Art or friendship. In its present form, capitalism is cruel and inhuman as well as wasteful and inefficient.

Despite substantial evidence of the declining population, the Juniper epidemic is very popular, from the plague of William McNeill to the people, Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize. Social emergencies still exist 23. Why choose immune vulnerability as the most relevant explanation among many complex alternatives? Perhaps it is attractive like Puritan's conservatism because it provides meaning and assurance to historians and their audiences. Population decline is a unique history - a product of an immunological moment: a fusion of two long-term isolated populations, one familiar with the disease and the other immunologically inexperienced. If they do not introduce smallpox, others will certainly be so, the inevitable outcome can not be attributed to the scientists or their descendants. This argument replaces Puritan's theory and modern biology.