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When, in the 1920s, a botanist and a field marshal dreamed up rival theories of nature and society, no one could have guessed their ideas would influence the worldview of 70s hippies and 21st-century protest movements. But their faith in self-regulating systems has a sinister history
teamramonycajal · 4110 days ago · link ·
When someone mentions 'social Darwinism' or 'Holism' or 'self-organizing human ecosystems', legions of dead biologists and social scientists start spinning in their graves.