Disastrous Decisions

In Jared Diamond's "Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions" Diamond gives many reasons as to why societies fail themselves. He says that there are four main reasons. First the groups making the decisions for the society fail to anticipate the problem, then they fail to perceive the problem. Next, they fail to attempt to solve the problem and finally the groups fail to successfully solve the problem. He says that many societies fail themselves because they don't relate their problems to problems already solved in history. He says they also don't use the new information and facts that are right in front of them. Diamond's writing style was helpful because he used many descriptive examples to assist the reader in understanding his points.