John Gowdy: “Superorganisms, Crazy Ants, and Fire Apes, Oh My!"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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The Super Organism Story
The super organism story is we self orn ized after climate stabilized to maximi surplus, which led to division of labor. Fast forward ten thousand years or so, and we found fossil carbon, which boosted our fuel and supply. Further passed forward a couple of hundred years, and were no longer optimizing for surplus markers like financial claims on surplus. The whole thing is out of control. There is no one in charge. It was an emergent property of so many humans pursuing their individual goals under an overarching goalof economic growth and financi maximiation. When was the inflection point of that? And can you expand on what i just said? Did i get that right?
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