3 items with this tag.

  • Beauvoir, and Wealthy Housewives

    I have found being a wealthy housewife to be a strange combination of being an aristocrat and a servant.
  • The story of Argentina

    As told by me, who knows very little, but did spend hours on the plane there reading about it.
  • Review: Collapse of Complex Societies (Tainter)

    Joseph Tainter’s explanation for why complex societies collapse in one sentence: the collapse of a society is a response to declining marginal returns on investment in complexity. Tainter uses ‘complexity’ pretty loosely. He’s referring to a broad set of things that include agriculture, fuel extraction, scientific research, education, and sociopolitical complexity.