Humanity and Law of Three
Oct. 13th, 2024 09:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
All of humanity’s history (especially its major shifts) can be explained by 3 major processes:
1. Charisma+sociopathy (e.g. Caesar, Napoleon, Lenin, Hitler)
2. Disruption: climate and innovations/inventions (e.g. major droughts, religion, war machines/tactics, computers)
3. Positive feedback mechanisms: compounding interest, rent seeking, oligopoly, monopoly, wealth concentration.
1. Charisma+sociopathy (e.g. Caesar, Napoleon, Lenin, Hitler)
2. Disruption: climate and innovations/inventions (e.g. major droughts, religion, war machines/tactics, computers)
3. Positive feedback mechanisms: compounding interest, rent seeking, oligopoly, monopoly, wealth concentration.
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Date: 2024-10-13 11:59 pm (UTC)There is a good argument - see The Roman Revolution - that Octavius Caesar is a successful sociopath.
Julius looks like an entirely more complex case.
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Date: 2024-10-22 08:08 am (UTC)