Paul Cooper of Fall Of Civilizations: In Conversation

[@ARTintersect]

Great interview! Paul Cooper's podcast is incredibly well done, I recommend it to my students! History is fascinating

[@agentsmidt3209]

Finally get to see the man, the legend. I love FOC

[@joefilter2923]

Another great show!

[@paullewis2413]

In an era with continued dumbing down its very refreshing to hear intelligent and well researched podcasts such as Paul Cooper’s “Fall of Civilizations” It gives hope that our civilization isn’t yet about to meet its finality though the signs of decline are evident in many aspects.

[@Robert_McGarry_Poems]

Love it. ❤

[@jimyoung9262]

I love Fall of Civilizations. I can't wait to see what he does with the USA

[@kyleweller1]

What I’d give for a Lex Fridman, Paul Cooper interview

[@PerryWidhalm]

The civilized social structure will always collapse because civilization is an unsustainable by-product of horticulture (then agriculture) which is a survival strategy of hunters, gatherers and scavengers. At its simplest, to survive in times of severe subsistence stress, Homo sapiens sapiens turned to grooming the landscape to increase food production. When the emergency passed the grooming of the landscape ended. But, if for any reason the grooming of landscapes continued to become horticulture the people became trapped in a subsistence Catch-22 as the more food produced and stored successfully the more the population grew until there was no way to halt the process without mass starvation. Human beings DID NOT "progress" to sedentism > agriculture > civilization. No! That is a comforting lie highly-civilized people tell themselves ... the same people who have never grown a garden or killed a deer or spent a single night alone in the wilderness.

[@davidmenasco5743]

That's a fascinating analysis. Subsistence catch-22.