Kissenger: After the fact, you can see what we should have noticed. He argues that conspiracy theories are predicated on ar conniving at ulterior, dark, motivated outcomes. Kissenger says history is worth its old fashioned form of ploughing through documents generated by governments and corporations.
Disasters are inherently hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises, and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. In this episode, Michael Shermer speaks with one of the world’s most renowned historians, Niall Ferguson, who explains why our ever more bureaucratic and complex systems are making us worse, not better, at handling disasters.