Great Founder Theory | Samo Burja

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Where are we, how did we get here, and where are we going? If we knew, could we change course? And what would it take to succeed? Many disciplines have sought to answer these proverbial big questions, with answers ranging from the philosophical to the biological and everything in between. But often overlooked is the value of history. The recorded history of human civilization over the last 10,000 years, with the stories and sagas of empires, religions, and great individuals have left us with a tremendous corpus of raw material to read and analyze. Should we? Perhaps history is overlooked because it feels superficially irrelevant to contemporary problems and issues. Much of it may be. Alternately, we might take the view of the ancient Biblical book of Ecclesiastes that there is “nothing new under the sun”. Already, we must make an important epistemological decision. Our beliefs concerning large-scale patterns of the present world carry predictions for the future and explanations of the

Great Founder Theory by Samo Burja | Sep 5, 2018 Great Founder Theory by Samo Burja | September 5, 2018 This is an excerpt from the draft of my upcoming book on great founder theory. Learn more here. A theory of history Where are we, how did we get here, and where are we going? If we knew, could we change course? And what would it take to succeed? Many disciplines have sought to answer these proverbial big questions, with answers ranging from the philosophical to the biological and everything in between. But often overlooked is the value of history. The recorded history of human civilization o

Great Founder Theory | Samo Burja

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