Steve Bull (https://olduvai.ca)·Oct 15Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLXVII–Elite Responses to the Architecture of Collapse…This Contemplation concludes my series exploring the responses of ruling elites to diminishing returns on investments in complexity. I’ve…
Steve Bull (https://olduvai.ca)·Oct 8Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLXVI–Elite Responses to the Architecture of Collapse, Part…Today’s Contemplation is the last response I will analyse that explores a society’s ruling elite attempts to counter diminishing returns on…
Steve Bull (https://olduvai.ca)·Oct 4Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLXV–Elite Responses to the Architecture of Collapse, Part…This Contemplation continues to explore the responses of the ruling elite to diminishing returns on investments in complexity that began…
Steve Bull (https://olduvai.ca)·Sep 18Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLXII–Elite Responses to the Architecture of Collapse, Part…I began this series of Contemplations on elite responses to the architecture of collapse by outlining the five recurring ones that tend to…
Steve Bull (https://olduvai.ca)·Sep 11Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLXI–Elite Responses to the Architecture of Collapse, Part…In Part 1 of this series of Contemplations on the typical responses of a society’s ruling elite to societal collapse, I discussed the…A response icon1A response icon1
Steve Bull (https://olduvai.ca)·Sep 4Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLX–Elite Responses to the Architecture of Collapse, Part 1Have you noticed that when a society begins to falter, to move sideways, its ruling elite rarely if ever respond by looking in the mirror…
Spike Dolomite·Feb 18The Joke is on UsAn independent panel appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council believes that the Epstein Files is a global enterprise that meets…A response icon19A response icon19
James Rozoff·Dec 28, 2025When Communication Only Flows From Top To Bottom, Our Leaders Lose Touch With RealityWhat if societies don’t collapse when the people stop listening to their leaders but when the leaders stop listening to the people? Perhaps…A response icon2A response icon2
Steve Bull (https://olduvai.ca)·Oct 24, 2025Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXVIII–We’re Saved!In the first part of this multi-part Contemplation (see Website Medium Substack) I laid out my reason for examining critically the…A response icon1A response icon1
Steve Bull (https://olduvai.ca)·Oct 17, 2025Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXVII–We’re Saved!Many (most?) people believe that the problems/predicaments that humanity finds itself having to deal with can be addressed by our governing…A response icon1A response icon1
