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Seducing Ourselves
Seducing Ourselves: Understanding Public Denial in a Declining Complex Society | Donna L. Armstrong, Ph.d., Donna L Armstrong Ph D
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Our large human brains evolved some 1.8 million years ago to facilitate social cohesion in small groups, supporting higher-order thinking as well as emotional cooperation as a survival strategy. But when written symbolic language, which (…more)
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Seducing Ourselves: Understanding Public Denial in a Declining Complex Society | Donna L. Armstrong, Ph.d., Donna L Armstrong Ph D
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This is a very academic text, so it can be a slog at times, yet I think for anyone interested in how societies collapse and why the public seems to be willfully ignorant of it while it‘s clearly happening, this is a must read. There are some particularly helpful insights into how complexity, once reached, cannot be easily undone. There are some interesting psychological insights about human group cohesion and specific American cultural traits.