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| resources:jared_diamond [2012/09/25 12:18] – Petike | resources:jared_diamond [2018/06/03 13:22] – max_sinister |
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| Jared Diamond began as a dark mad science experiment by [[offtopic:Doctor What]] to create a hybrid clone of [[offtopic:Jared]] and [[offtopic:Diamond]], thus combining the ability to create great dystopian TLs with the ability to illustrate them with great maps. Predictably the machine backfired and instead produced a social historian who wrote works such as "Guns, Germs and Steel" and "Collapse", looking at the history of civilisation. | Jared Diamond began as a dark mad science experiment by [[offtopic:Doctor What]] to create a hybrid clone of [[offtopic:Jared]] and [[offtopic:Diamond]], thus combining the ability to create great dystopian TLs with the ability to illustrate them with great maps. Predictably the machine backfired and instead produced a social historian who wrote works such as "Guns, Germs and Steel" and "Collapse", looking at the history of civilisation. |
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| Diamond's proposals for why Europe and the West dominated world history after the 1500s are popular on the board, although not universally accepted. A creator of alternate geographical Earths on another website devised a tilted Earth called Jaredia to deliberately exemplify all the characteristics Diamond considered to favour civilisation. Later, [[offtopic:Max Sinister]] used a map of this world to develop an eponymous scenario based on that idea. Predictably, said timeline is proceeding more slowly than hoped. | Diamond's proposals for why Europe and the West dominated world history after the 1500s are popular on the board, although not universally accepted. A creator of alternate geographical Earths on the website [[offtopic:World Dream Bank]] devised a tilted Earth called Jaredia to deliberately exemplify all the characteristics Diamond considered to favour civilisation. Later, [[offtopic:Max Sinister]] used a map of this world to develop [[timelines:Jaredia|an eponymous scenario]] based on that idea. Predictably, said timeline is proceeding more slowly than hoped. |
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