How Great Founders Shape Society - Urbane Cowboys Podcast

Samo Burja joins Josiah Neeley on the Urbane Cowboys podcast to discuss Great Founder Theory, how great founders shape society, and what Charlemagne and Bismarck can tell us about the future of Twitter.

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The Urbane Cowboys podcast is hosted by Josiah Neeley of the R Street Institute and Doug McCullough of the Lone Star Policy Institute.

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Samo Burja is a sociologist and the founder of Bismarck Analysis, a firm that analyzes institutions, from governments to companies. His research work focuses on the causes of societal decay and flourishing. He writes on history, epistemology and strategy.

More from Samo Burja:

[rabbitsforyang]

while it is true that consensus becomes exponentially more difficult with greater numbers of people, this was due to technical limitations on modes of communication
with the emergent Constructive Web based on the Meldd framework, a billion people could reach multi-level consensus in a day on complex issues, which will help to change course away from the current trajectory of civilization collapse

[genedalefield]

It's curious, I do wonder if we're actually heading to collapse, there's so many moving parts and we can only view things from a very relative basis.

For example, I think while the Internet is disruptive of the information ecology, it also might be comparable to plowing a sown field to change the crop grown. Similarly with climate change, there might be some biotechnologies that come down the line and make our worries look quaint, one can only hope.

It's hard to know if anyone can keep pace with all the growing and accelerating parts of the whole, our problems might just be too large and complex, but then, I fear we waste a lot of potential at the moment, so we might see that turned around with the vibe shift, but that seems very decentralised in some ways, but I think most young people have a consensus in the direction we should head, if not on what's perfect, the sort of your solution I might not agree with, but it's better than the current system.

Though there's the question of what you agree upon based on what you've been exposed to prior and the people around you. In some ways the way our social groups segregate along age might definitely see some big changes, the other ways we segregate maybe not as quickly.

Sorry for the spiel, I start thinking and find it hard to elaborate on just one topic, being this open minded works for me, but it's hard to write essays or the like.

[emZee]

Zelensky praise didn't age well lol