I keep thinking about this. Even though I’m super sceptical about causal inferences that back into the past, one explanation for the decline of Mohism in China is that their insistence on frugality wasn’t popular among elites and they lost elite support.
That’s interesting. Though, if there was basically a historical pattern of cultural movements self-destructing by promoting frugality, I would suspect that EA would still survive because the internet makes certain ideas and cultures harder to destroy.
I keep thinking about this. Even though I’m super sceptical about causal inferences that back into the past, one explanation for the decline of Mohism in China is that their insistence on frugality wasn’t popular among elites and they lost elite support.
That’s interesting. Though, if there was basically a historical pattern of cultural movements self-destructing by promoting frugality, I would suspect that EA would still survive because the internet makes certain ideas and cultures harder to destroy.