Up until the productivity collapse in the 80s, it did deliver the goods, maybe not as high quality as the west, but it was indeed an industrial society.
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Do you have a reference off-hand? That description seems to place his conjecture outside the field of agency.
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It’s a paragraph in “Innate Social Aptitudes of Man”, freely avl online. He observed rebirths ~800 yrs after invasions; theory that civ selects against innovators, so replenishment long-term beneficial. Practically? Don’t waste asabiyah; reward & replicate creators?
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So there's no benefit in trying to design a system that accommodates innovators, by his conclusion? I wonder if there isn't a way to give them space within a culture, though.
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No he wasn’t fatalistic, was def in favor of promoting desirable traits -he recognized that we couldn’t expect it to happen on its own.
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