Lördagstur

Do we really believe in science: the emergence of truthiness
In an article in the Guardian the other day Georg Monbiot wonders why climate change denial is spreading in spite of what the scientific community states: A survey last month by the Pew Research Centre suggests that the proportion of Americans who believe there’s solid evidence that the world has been warming over the past few decades has fallen from 71% to 57% in just 18 months(1). Another survey, conducted in January by Rasmussen Reports, suggests that, due to a sharp rise since 2006, US voters who believe that global warming is th

Why knowledge is destroyed with fall of civilizations
It is a bit weird that it is much more easy to write things in the unstructured and undemanding link stream i e my Tumblr feed, than to write things here. I will try to change that… For some time I have been thinking about the role of destruction in change processes. That lead me e g to reread Asimov’s Foundation, which I referred to some time ago in this blog. One of the “natural laws” of civilizational collapse is that there seems to be a causal relation between a civilizational collapse and knowledge destru