Why does every empire eventually die? Goliath's Curse by collapse researcher Luke Kemp is the book behind Metacrisis Salon #9 in Brooklyn. This study guide takes you through the whole argument in about an hour: how societies actually collapse, what triggers the fall, and what that means for this one. Listen before or after the Salon 9 recap, which sits right beside this episode.

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America is not divided on the issues. It is locked in contempt, and contempt is a different problem with a different fix. At Metacrisis Salon #8 in Brooklyn, Emily Graham of Braver Angels showed a New York living room the perception gap: why both sides badly misjudge each other. Then journalist Shia Levitt of News Ambassadors mapped the other half of the problem: news deserts, where local reporting collapses and polarization fills the gap.

This Field Notes episode is the twenty-minute recap for everyone who could not be in the room: the big ideas, the best moments, and what people committed to do next.

Read the full recap · Salon transcript · The original event

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America is not divided on the issues. It is locked in contempt, and contempt is a different problem with a different fix. At Metacrisis Salon #8 in Brooklyn, Emily Graham of Braver Angels showed a New York living room the perception gap: why both sides badly misjudge each other. Then journalist Shia Levitt of News Ambassadors mapped the other half of the problem: news deserts, where local reporting collapses and polarization fills the gap.

This Extended Edition is the whole salon, about an hour, unhurried: every argument, every question from the room, every commitment.

Read the full recap · Salon transcript · The original event

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Humans are an egalitarian species, and we keep building cages anyway. At Metacrisis Salon #9 in Brooklyn, collapse researcher Luke Kemp traced how empires form and why every one of them eventually falls, calling them Goliaths rather than civilizations. Then evolutionary philosopher Samantha Sweetwater turned the same crisis inside out: the story that sustains dominance, and what it would take to replace it.

This Field Notes episode is the twenty-minute recap for everyone who could not be in the room: the big ideas, the best moments, and what people committed to do next.

Read the full recap · Salon transcript · The original event

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Humans are an egalitarian species, and we keep building cages anyway. At Metacrisis Salon #9 in Brooklyn, collapse researcher Luke Kemp traced how empires form and why every one of them eventually falls, calling them Goliaths rather than civilizations. Then evolutionary philosopher Samantha Sweetwater turned the same crisis inside out: the story that sustains dominance, and what it would take to replace it.

This Extended Edition is the whole salon, about an hour, unhurried: every argument, every question from the room, every commitment.

Read the full recap · Salon transcript · The original event

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We already change the climate every day, by accident and in the dirtiest way possible. At Metacrisis Salon #10 in Brooklyn, Kelly Erhart of Outlier Projects asked a New York living room the uncomfortable question: should we start doing it on purpose? The science, the risks, and the rules it would demand.

This Field Notes episode is the twenty-minute recap for everyone who could not be in the room: the big ideas, the best moments, and what people committed to do next.

Read the full recap · Salon transcript · The original event

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We already change the climate every day, by accident and in the dirtiest way possible. At Metacrisis Salon #10 in Brooklyn, Kelly Erhart of Outlier Projects asked a New York living room the uncomfortable question: should we start doing it on purpose? The science, the risks, and the rules it would demand.

This Extended Edition is the whole salon, about an hour, unhurried: every argument, every question from the room, every commitment.

Read the full recap · Salon transcript · The original event

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The system extracts and accelerates because that is exactly what it was built to do. At Metacrisis Salon #11 in Brooklyn, author Jeremy Lent showed a New York living room a different design: an ecocivilization, a society built around life instead of extraction, and how to grow one inside the shell of the old.

This Field Notes episode is the twenty-minute recap for everyone who could not be in the room: the big ideas, the best moments, and what people committed to do next.

Read the full recap · Salon transcript · The original event

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