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Samo Burja: Why civilizations fail; lost technologies, failure to teach and social technologies.

The Vance Crowe Podcast

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Is There a Difference Between a Lawyer and a Priest?

"i think a lot of these cultural practices that could seem abhorrent to us now do so because we've lost the context under which they were in," he says. "Primogeniture means the first son inherits everything, and this wasn't just true of kingdoms." He asks: What if primogeniture actually was a simple way to prevent them fighting each other? 'We have solved far fewer of these problems than we pretend to'

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