Anand Giriharadas’s review of Jared Diamond’s Upheaval is ruthless, but largely gets things right, I think. The gist of it is that Diamond thinks “ahh let’s take the framework of coping (individuals) and apply them to nations in upheaval (societies).
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The problem, of course, is that ideas that apply at the level of the individual might not apply at the level of the group (much less the nation state). You should have klaxons ringing in your head every time you come across something like this.
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