October
17
/ 2020
A new anthropological study provides a strong message about what happens when social contracts are broken by a previously good government – the government and the society collapses – hard. Essentially the study finds, when a government is good, it’s very, very good, but when it goes bad, it’s the worst. One of the most interesting aspects of the new study published in Frontiers in Political Science is that the researchers found that when “good” governments – which Field Museum describes as “ones that provided goods and services for their people and did not starkly concentrate wealth and power” fell apart, the fall was much more dramatic and intense than when dictatorships crumbled. A Field Museum press release reports that
