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Joel Markowitz
Jan 14, 2022, 2:18:56 PM1/14/22
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As we know, natural selection has done an impressive job, even with regard to collective minds.
I'm 95 years old;, and I've been lecturing on, and writing about, psychohistory and on the evolution of collective minds since 1965.
One “recent” example. How many of you remember the USSR when it included Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Albania, Bulgaria— and many other small nations?
As a psychohistorian, I knew early on that the USSR would fragment— which it did under Gorbachev and Yeltsin, and with remarkably little loss of life.
Natural selection has often been very wise and very effective. Which is one reason that we can trust ongoing progress.
Unfortunately, the good systems, "the good guys," and the good ideas tend to be cliffhangers. To happen — frequently-- only after we get to the cliff- edge and have to mobilize somewhat desperately to survive.
Joel Markowitz
As we know, natural selection has done an impressive job, even with regard to collective minds.
I'm 95 years old;, and I've been lecturing on, and writing about, psychohistory and on the evolution of collective minds since 1965.
One “recent” example. How many of you remember the USSR when it included Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Albania, Bulgaria— and many other small nations?
As a psychohistorian, I knew early on that the USSR would fragment— which it did under Gorbachev and Yeltsin, and with remarkably little loss of life.
Natural selection has often been very wise and very effective. Which is one reason that we can trust ongoing progress.
Unfortunately, the good systems, "the good guys," and the good ideas tend to be cliffhangers. To happen — frequently-- only after we get to the cliff- edge and have to mobilize somewhat desperately to survive.
Joel Markowitz
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