Are all states in social/polity space recurrent? I used to think, “yes obviously,” but now I’m not at all sure.
This is kinda naval gazing, but sociopolitical path-dependence is something I’ve been thinking (galaxy braining) a lot lately.
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The world seems to be approaching various bifurcation points. And a lot of optimism is predicated upon “we have in the past, too, and things turn out fine.” But must it? Or even, has it, relative to the unrealized but otherwise accessible pasts?
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(This is kinda an “arc of the moral universe” interrogation.)
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