#1285 Luke Kemp - Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricard Wops, and today I'm joined by Dr. Luke Kemp. He is research afilate at the University of Cambridge, and today we're talking about his book. Goliath's curse the history and future of societal collapse. So Doctor Kemp, welcome to the show. It's a big pleasure to everyone. Thank you for having me. So T was
First, uh what do you mean by the term Goliath? in your book and uh also What characterizes a state? Because we are always uh constantly using this term state, state, but What does it really mean? Let's start with Go Life.
Goliath is essentially my replacement term for civilization. When you go to write a book on collapse, the obvious question is what is collapsing? Most people respond to civilization. Yeah, I found when I tried to look for good definitions of civilization, they were hard to come by. No, it's just a real lack of
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