The Next Big Thing: A Rough Guide to things that seemed like a good idea at the time — Why absurd systems keep returning
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Author: Rhodri Marsden
This episode explores The Next Big Thing: A Rough Guide to things that seemed like a good idea at the time by Rhodri Marsden as a systems-level analysis of how status signaling, social imitation, and belief incentives influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.
By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or isolated oddities, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger cultural, economic, and epistemic structures.
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