Download A Macat Analysis of Jared M. Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive AudioBook Free
In his 2005 e book Collapse: How Societies Want to Fail or Succeed (also subtitled How Societies Want to Fail or Survive), author and multifaceted US scholar Jared M. Stone clearly recognizes five major factors that he says determine the success or failure of all real human societies in all periods of record. Having first asked why societies collapse, Stone explores various types of failed societies, from the Norsemen of Scandinavia, who colonized Greenland in the early 10th century, to the 18th-century inhabitants of Easter Island. As being a counterpoint, he shows how inhabitants of Highland New Guinea over the past 7,000 years, and Japan in the 17th to 19th generations, managed to conquer potentially terminal issues to their survival. Investigating these successes and failures allows Stone to identify the five key factors. Collapse alienated many academics, especially those who objected to Diamond's focus on "geographic determinism", or the impact of local conditions along the way societies develop. Many of them dismissed this view as outdated and racist. But Diamond's depth of knowledge, and the way he uses it so engagingly, have gained Collapse a huge worldwide readership.
