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Mar 19Liked by Ben Parry

I enjoyed your article. It's not often that I find these (urban) issues being analyzed deep beneath the surface. What might be worth further exploring is Geoffry West's - city as superlinear scaling phenomena. And then, how does that work on lower and higher fractal scales, all in the context of urbanization.

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This was great, I really enjoyed reading this

Very minor disagreement but in your footnote you say we haven’t found a way to use propaganda to sway people universally- I would say the First World War is a good counter example to that (of course it was not absolutely universal but it was as close as it gets). If you’re interested in learning more about propaganda I highly recommend Walter Lippmann’a public opinion- it’s foundational in my understanding of politics and the public sphere

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