This book really annoyed me. The author points out dozens of trends and occurrences over the past 1000 years or so, but it's kind of like noticing squirrels. He fails to show whether these trends are causes or effects. I think he's too wedded to his model, like wedding oneself to the lipid hypothesis. I would have more appreciation for h…
This book really annoyed me. The author points out dozens of trends and occurrences over the past 1000 years or so, but it's kind of like noticing squirrels. He fails to show whether these trends are causes or effects. I think he's too wedded to his model, like wedding oneself to the lipid hypothesis. I would have more appreciation for his effort if he had made a stab at naming a deeper cause behind his trends, like "elite overproduction". How about the USA's debasement of the money for the last 60 years? I think a great deal of human behavior follows from that. It can't go on forever though, and this author and more and more people every day know it too.
This book really annoyed me. The author points out dozens of trends and occurrences over the past 1000 years or so, but it's kind of like noticing squirrels. He fails to show whether these trends are causes or effects. I think he's too wedded to his model, like wedding oneself to the lipid hypothesis. I would have more appreciation for his effort if he had made a stab at naming a deeper cause behind his trends, like "elite overproduction". How about the USA's debasement of the money for the last 60 years? I think a great deal of human behavior follows from that. It can't go on forever though, and this author and more and more people every day know it too.