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What is SCALE?

What is SCALE?

Mass society and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

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Jul 16, 2022
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This post is about One Big Idea. SCALE is that idea. It has been expressed as a
backronym

  • Size

  • Complexity

  • Atomization

  • Liberalism

  • Elitism  

SCALE reduces to the idea that changes in size of social organization have large effects on human behaviour, and that at the terminal stage the effects on behaviour become pathological and lead to deterioration of social…

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