"We're constantly having chaos divert our lives" - political scientist Brian Klaas on Fluke

In this bonus episode of The News Meeting podcast, the Tortoise team are joined by Dr Brian Klaas, Associate Professor in Global Politics at University College London and author of ‘Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters’.
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[@SamuelOrjiM]

Finally someone with a humanities specialisation picked up chaotic dynamics

[@clareomarfran]

When you think about all the skull-sized kingdoms making their individual ways, in all their disparate reasonings-all the time everyday, everywhere-you realize how amazing it is that the world works as well as it does.

[@AlokAsthana1954]

Nice book. Read it. Good job. ALL ideas are the ones as by Nassim Nicholas Talen in his Fooled by Randomness, and The Black Swan. Fantastic books.,

[@railworker8058]

Fascinating! Things either happen for a reason or, more likely, things are based on adapting to events. This is probably how human culture and civilisation proliferates by a blend of event, chance, change, and reaction. What we have today is a situation where events are no longer subject to chance but intent, change is being forced, not to improve, but to objectify. an agenda, and reaction does not necessarily have to be rational. Apply this to modern politics: in America, Britain, even here in Canada, events have been politically geared to produce nihilism, chance is abjured by deliberate manipulation, change is a conquest of particular thought opposed to reason, reaction is either war, destruction, or rejection of the above when ordinary people are finally given an opportunity to intervene. No one wants fascism except fools, nihilists, and psychopaths. However, it seems novel and fun within a democracy that likes to think that if something fails, it can be undone four years later. This is not the case. Those four years under a fascist agenda will be used to cement permanency against democracy. Putin has engineered western decline. Stooges like Trump, Bojo, and Pollievre have been bought and paid for. There is no chance in these events, only evil change, and the reaction stands to be probably violent unless reason prevails. Fascism has bred contempt for humanity. It’s only conversations such as this one will save the world.

[@infour44]

Additional to chaos we are also living in a state of intentional anxiety; the anxiety being created by governments that encourage us to be fearful, suspicious and wary of, almost just getting out of bed. I guess this makes us likely to be more compliant with an overreaching government intent on interfering with and controlling our lives. Bit like Shanghai and the CCP really. See it say it sort it, Stasi style.

[@railworker8058]

We’ve struggled from deliberate crisis to crisis for years, designed to divide and conquer. The cycle was set in motion with the collapse of the Soviet Union; Gulf war 1, Bosnia, Y2K, 911, Gulf War 2, Yemen, Afghanistan, War on Terror,financial crises, Covid, Ukraine, Gaza, Taiwan, and Red Sea, to generalise. It’s so contrived and avoidable.

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[@momok8896]

Negative review on the book bro

[@user-ci1cz7pp5q]

Where are they?

[@TheExhaustedProgrammer]

Clearly neither person has heard about the debate on the Great Man Theory, so leaving this hear to help spread information en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory