{"id":114,"date":"2006-01-27T01:47:30","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T01:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/2006\/01\/27\/collapse\/"},"modified":"2008-11-01T14:04:01","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T21:04:01","slug":"collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2006\/01\/27\/collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-114\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0143036556\/sr=1-1\/qid=1138354853\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/102-2123563-3936114?%5Fencoding=UTF8\" target=\"NewWindow\">Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author: <\/strong>Jared Diamond<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback: <\/strong>592 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Penguin (Non-Classics) (December 27, 2005)<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN: <\/strong>0143036556<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the follow up to Diamond&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0393317552\/ref=pd_bxgy_img_b\/102-2123563-3936114?%5Fencoding=UTF8\" target=\"NewWindow\">Guns, Germs and Steel<\/a> .  Where his first book attempted to answer the question, &#8220;why do you people have such great cargo,&#8221; this book asks, &#8220;why do civilizations suddenly fail?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As usual, Diamond finds very interesting information to wire together into a useful framework. Unfortunately, at times the logic seems wanting; for example, he states five rules that he feels can be evaluated to determine if a society will collapse, and then uses one of his examples, which was used to make the rules, to validate them.  Doesn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>But, there is a wealth of great information and ideas here, along with what I believe is a valid theme in history &#8211; societies don&#8217;t see the long-term implications of their short-term tactics, and even if they do they often can&#8217;t change themselves fast<br \/>\nenough to survive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-114\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 114);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-114\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-114\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Author: Jared Diamond Paperback: 592 pages Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (December 27, 2005) ISBN: 0143036556 This is the follow up to Diamond&#8217;s Guns, Germs and Steel . 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