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/THREAD/ Recently, @KatharinaPistor recommendation of the intellectual biography genre convinced me that I should read this Hirschman biography since it caught my eye in the @BostonReview and I noted relevance to @M_C_Klein overshoot to @adam_tooze in Sep.
2. I intend to catalog my reading notes according to his view of underdevelopment as the "difficulty to take the decisions needed for development in required number and required speed." ( p.80) Speed & scale points me in two directions—climate and China
3. Green transition away from @michiokaku Level 0 civilization is necessary reminder every country is underdeveloped. China also a natural case study, as @JonathanWoetzel once said, its industrialization was 100x as large, 10x as fast, 1000x impact (12:-)
Reading through @paologerbaudo The Great Recoil. This Ch. on control hits on so much that's on my mind. vincentpalumbosmith.substack.com/p/the-elusiven…
I wonder if the Shenzhen official @CSISFreeman quotes (24:44-) from @DimitarGueorg1 forthcoming book was thinking of Plato. csis.org/node/61579
I wonder if the Shenzhen official @CSISFreeman quotes (24:44-) from @DimitarGueorg1 forthcoming book was thinking of Plato. csis.org/node/61579
/THREAD/ I have lots of thoughts after reading @paologerbaudo The Great Recoil, but unfortunately they are all scattered, so in lieu of a blog post, I thought I would share my reading notes with companion links like I did above.
2. I was unfamiliar with Soviet economist Nikolai Kondratieff`s ideological cycles. Calls to mind Peter Turchin`s cliodynamics. In a running theme throughout the book, the right, notably Steve Bannon, has their pet theories of cycles washingtonpost.com/entertainment/…
This is how #AvocadoPolitics begins: "We are facing serious environmental problems—but the ecological hysteria of the Left is not designed to fix those problems... because their real agenda is essentially to destroy whites, to cripple white nations." counter-currents.com/2019/06/toward…
"Africa is basically in a Malthusian trap where every bit of additional resources is simply consumed by a swarming, locust-like increase in population, and so they will never actually progress; they will never accumulate capital; they will never accumulate technology."
"Their reproductive strategy is high fertility and low investment. That’s what their brains and bodies are wired for, as a race."
