Jaime
The first half of this book introduced some novel and super-insightful frameworks for thinking about how society works, both on the individual level and at higher orders: the thinking ladder, the emergence tower, the thought pile vs speech curve, political genies vs golems. I kind of want everyone I know to read the first half so I can reference these concepts in any conversation.
The second half takes those frameworks and applies them to evaluating some major issues with the political left and right. I’m not going to attempt to explain them here because I think you need to read the first half of the book to be ready to be open-minded to the (IMO) quite valid concerns he raises.
The book wasn’t perfect - it got a bit bogged down with an over-abundance of supporting evidence in the second half. But it was a pretty enjoyable read (the illustrations add a lot!) and I’ll be thinking about it for a while!
The first half of this book introduced some novel and super-insightful frameworks for thinking about how society works, both on the individual level and at higher orders: the thinking ladder, the emergence tower, the thought pile vs speech curve, political genies vs golems. I kind of want everyone I know to read the first half so I can reference these concepts in any conversation.
The second half takes those frameworks and applies them to evaluating some major issues with the political left and right. I’m not going to attempt to explain them here because I think you need to read the first half of the book to be ready to be open-minded to the (IMO) quite valid concerns he raises.
The book wasn’t perfect - it got a bit bogged down with an over-abundance of supporting evidence in the second half. But it was a pretty enjoyable read (the illustrations add a lot!) and I’ll be thinking about it for a while!