Do Your Own Research: You Can’t Have Billionaires and Democracy. Ancient Collapse Proves It. w/ Luke Kemp
About this episode
The episode discusses the potential for societal collapse and the implications of billionaires on democracy with guest Luke Kemp.
It’s the question that will come to define our lives: is our society going to collapse? But the field of collapse research is fragmented, chaotic, and often plain deranged. Who can you trust? Luke Kemp is the author of Goliath’s Curse and a research affiliate at the Cambridge University Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. He’s also a political radical. He told Richard Hames about how close we are to the same tipping point that brought down every other empire in history, why states are criminal gangs in disguise, and why Rome was the Isis of its day. Do Your Own Research is a new show from Novara Media about the systems that make the modern world possible. Music by Iglooghost.
People in this episode
Host: Richard Hames
Guest: Luke Kemp
Topics covered
- collapse research
- democracy
- billionaires
- political radicalism
- historical empires
- societal collapse
Keywords
- collapse research
- democracy
- billionaires
- political radicalism
- historical empires
- societal collapse
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Cambridge University Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Books & works: Goliath’s Curse
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