Hierarchy & Collapse w/ Luke Kemp

About this episode

The episode features a conversation about hierarchy and societal collapse with author Luke Kemp.

How hierarchy forms and gets stuck in a feedback loop is something that many people have a hard time grasping. Today I’m speaking with Luke Kemp, author of the book Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse. The book does an incredible job of outlining aspects of rewilding that I have been teaching for many years, in a succinct way that illuminated more things I hadn’t factored into the big picture. In this episode Luke and I have a wide ranging conversation, covering vario...

People in this episode

Host: Peter Michael Bauer

Guest: Luke Kemp

Topics covered

• hierarchy
• societal collapse
• rewilding
• feedback loops
• history
• future

Keywords

• hierarchy
• collapse
• rewilding
• societal collapse
• feedback loop
• Luke Kemp
• Goliath’s Curse

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse

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