1/ islands, yes, but perhaps more worrying than that, folds in the manifold I will explain >>>https://twitter.com/IntractableLion/status/1483883726320721922 …
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12/ ...and eventually we get up to Q, and we still remember the predecessor technology P, but have forgotten the details of A through O. If we choose to do something to destroy Q, we may be screwed, and have to start over at A. Imagine if we threw away nuclear technology now
13/ ...and forgot all of the details of it in a generation ...but at this point, all of the easily accessible oil and coal are gone. That's one example. There are others. I suggest that this applies in social tech as well as energy etc tech.
14/ If you burn down the Enlightenment, or stigmatize and devalue Kegan level 4 norms ("we must all abide by the rules, such as the SCOTUS and the fillibuster, even if they hurt us in a given electoral cycle"), can we step BACK into those norms 5 or 25 years later, or >>>
15/ ...do we have to laboriously climb the hill a second time, over 2 or 5 or 15 generations?
19/ on my "to read list" https://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Complex-Societies-Studies-Archaeology/dp/052138673X … The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology) Reprint Edition by Joseph A. Tainte
29/ my man! this is just the one I had in mind!https://twitter.com/BenEspen/status/1483902220286316546 …
30/ ah, wait, not EXACTLY The one, but close enough !
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