There seems to be a persistent mental bug preventing us from building a sustainable civilization. So far I have been focusing on the cultural, technological and political aspects of how and why each and every technological civilization ended up in ruins, and why ours is no different. A recent revelation made me think, however, that behind all these issues there might be a major hardware failure… In our brains. Is there a way around that bug? Is it possible to prevent it from recurring?
We actually have remade civilization on smaller scales many times in our history as a species. The Dawn of Everything is an outstanding but really long book on the subject
This was my most eye-opening read of last year.