Can We Avoid Collapse? - Ben Landau Taylor, Bismarck Analysis - DS Pod #300

Ben Landau Taylor is a writer, historian, and one of the minds
behind the Bismark Brief, whose research is focused on
understanding the life cycle of civilizations. Much of his work
has been informed by the work of Caroll Quigley, who in the 1970s
put together a seven part framework for how civilizations are
born, mature, and eventually go extinct. His model was one of an
economic instrument of expansion, where the tools of growth
defined the success of the empire - a direct contradiction to
contemporary Arnold Toynbee's perspective that it wasn't
economics that drove civilization - it was some kind of spiritual
commitment to a common cause. The economic model seemed more
reasonable to Taylor, who then wanted to know - was it simply
applicable to European history, or was this a more universal
model? We talk about the ways that the rise and fall of
civilizations generalizes across history, the place our own
civilization is in the progression, and what the future might
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Fragility and Stability in Civilizations (00:47:56) Evolution of
Civilizations (00:56:42) Patterns in Civilizational Waves
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