@j_dunkley I enjoyed watching your interview with @DrBrianKeating in the early hours of this morning, having woken up in my tent camped just outside Wareham in Dorset, using my phone as a hotspot, & thanks in no small part to physicists like yourself!
The natural sciences have progressed by leaps & bounds over the past few centuries. What has been discovered in my lifetime is mind-boggling. But alas, the social sciences are still trapped in a pre-Darwinian dark age, with a medieval understanding of society & the state. 
This is why, unable to use DM, I'm tweeting you. You natural scientists know your stuff, & like the rest of us, trust social scientists to know theirs - only they don't.
The historian A J Toynbee observed that ALL successful civilisations ultimately commit suicide.
The historian A J Toynbee observed that ALL successful civilisations ultimately commit suicide.
This is what our civilisation is also doing. But for reasons I am developing an understanding of, the very academics whose job it is to recognise this, don't.
Your husband, I believe, is one of these social scientists. Does he recognises what fellow historian #AJToynbee did?
Your husband, I believe, is one of these social scientists. Does he recognises what fellow historian #AJToynbee did?
What a tragedy it would be, after having achieved so much, for our civilisation to destroy itself, as all past civilisations have done.
https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1149587575423680517?s=20
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