Reading Group Meeting 7/23

[p.a.e.wallis]

Hey everyone,

We will once again meet at the Harold Washington Library (400 S State St.) in the 7th floor south study room from 1:30 to 3:30 PM, on Sunday.

This week’s readings:

• http://thefutureprimaeval.net/politics-is-upstream-of-science/
  
• https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-11/young-men-give-up-work-for-video-games-be-skeptical
  
• http://lesswrong.com/lw/md/cultish_countercultishness/
  

See you on Sunday!

Peter

[conor.hartin]

I read Tainter's Collapse of Complex Societies years ago and wrote up some thoughts on it here:

https://entitledtoanopinion.wordpress.com/2012/12/29/the-collapse-of-complex-societies/