Bing
1976 book plagues and people review
Host parasites relationship
Predator preys
Perpetrator victim cop
Macroparasites: government, bandit, warlord, landowner, rent seeking behavior, free rider dilemma, game theory,
parasitic behavior spectrum
ethics
human-to-human host-parasites model
relationship triangle
when there is enough hosts (workers, ...), then be on the look out for host-parasites relationship to develope
Host-parasites relationship compare to mutual beneficial relationship (symbiosis)
organizational
Parasitic behavior spectrum disorder (PBSD)
an organizational disorder that exhibits a host-parasites relationship
threshold
tipping point
when profits reach a parasitic tipping point,
parasitic loopholes
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Retro review: William H. McNeill ─ Plagues and People (1976)
by Ryan Young
09/02/2020
William McNiell
─ big picture world historians
─ a student of Arnold Toynbee
── Toynbee
── who emphasized separation and conflict as key drivers of world history
─ interconnectedness
─ disease as an engine of world history.
─ what can we learn from how other societies have dealt with plagues?
─ local diseases
─ tropical diseases rarely adapt well to cold climates, and vice versa.
─ disease transmission between species
─ animal domistication
─ disease outbreaks when people with
different domesticated animals
made first contact.
─ terrible disease outbreaks at their borders
─ if people continued to interact, they
built up mutual immunities to
each other's disease,
─ did not live densely together
─ highly infectious diseases
─ cities were a major development for diseases
─ urban─rural interactions
─ fewer diseases out in the country side
─ until modern times deaths usually outpaced births
─ wars, famines, other non─disease factors
─ Frieburg (“free town”)
─ with disease always operating in the background
─ viral and bacterial pathogens are microparasites
─ McNeill's theory of government
─ McNeill's theory of the origins of the state
── Mancur Olson's stationary bandit theory, but with a disease─center twist
─ McNeill observation
── diseases that are too lethal don't survive for very long
─ macroparasite level
── a bandit
─ interconnectedness made plague vectors spread faster and farther than they otherwise would have.
─ parasites were there to keep human population in check.
─ blood fluke
── causes schistosomiasis
─ trypanaosome
─ malaria
─ chain of infection
── invading virus dies out locally when cut off from the chain of infection
─ chicken pox
── related to cow pox
── dorman for 50 years
── reappear as shingles
─ measles
─ ancient Sumeria
─ host─parasite relationship
── mirror subject─government relationships
── government as humanity's macroparasite
─ Achieving this political balance of growing enough surplus to feed an army while not effectively starving your farmers also took thousands of years and multiple false starts and population thresholds.
─ double layer of macroparasite
── private land owners
── the Emperor (the government)
── taxes
── internalized ethic
── restrained arbitrary or innovative use of power
─ yellow river basin
── Yangtze valley
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