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    Thread: The atomization of violence
Post: The atomization of violence

Ok when was the last mass-shooting or terrorist attack committed by westerners (besides the Irish) that involved more than 2 people?  We have become so atomized that group violence no longer happens. ...
Dan '82 Society and Culture 1 2,117 10-02-2017, 06:42 PM
    Thread: spammer GeorgeHarNon
Post: RE: spammer GeorgeHarNon

I was away for the weekend when he struck, I will find some mods so this doesn't happen again.
Dan '82 General Discussion 9 8,210 09-04-2017, 10:52 PM
    Thread: Conservatives turn on Silicon Valley — and the free market
Post: Conservatives turn on Silicon Valley — and the fre...

http://theweek.com/articles/718558/conse...ree-market Quote:After the 2012 election, national Republicans made a concerted effort to hack into Silicon Valley. The Romney campaign had just been thorou...
Dan '82 General Political Discussion 9 5,246 08-17-2017, 10:37 AM
    Thread: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
Post: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...on/534198/ Quote:One day last summer, around noon, I called Athena, a 13-year-old who lives in Houston, Texas. She answered her phone—she’s had an iPhone s...
Dan '82 Homeland Generation/New Adaptive Generation 27 32,502 08-03-2017, 01:30 PM
    Thread: Micro 4T?
Post: Micro 4T?

Has it started yet?
Dan '82 Turnings 19 12,849 06-09-2017, 08:56 PM
    Thread: Class of ’27
Post: Class of ’27

Quote:Filmed in the hollows of Appalachia, on native lands of the Upper Midwest and in West Coast migrant camps, Class of ’27 presents distinct yet complementary personal stories from places too often...
Dan '82 Homeland Generation/New Adaptive Generation 1 2,831 05-06-2017, 06:40 PM
    Thread: Today’s College Freshmen Are…
Post: Today’s College Freshmen Are…

https://www.the-american-interest.com/20...shmen-are/ Quote:The Chronicle of Higher Education has a new web tool for exploring trends in the attitudes and opinions of incoming American college fres...
Dan '82 The Millennial Generation 3 4,023 05-03-2017, 10:44 PM
    Thread: Millennials with college degrees don’t favor censorship
Post: Millennials with college degrees don’t favor censo...

http://gnxp.nofe.me/2017/05/03/millennia...ensorship/? Quote:There’s a specter haunting the academy. The specter of “red guards” destroying lives and tearing down Western civilization and all its ac...
Dan '82 The Millennial Generation 26 24,425 05-03-2017, 08:56 PM
    Thread: The French, Coming Apart
Post: The French, Coming Apart

https://www.city-journal.org/html/french...15125.html Quote:The real-estate market in any sophisticated city reflects deep aspirations and fears. If you had a feel for its ups and downs—if you under...
Dan '82 Beyond America 33 24,532 04-23-2017, 07:45 AM
    Thread: Neil Howe: Where did Steve Bannon get his worldview? From my book.
Post: Neil Howe: Where did Steve Bannon get his worldvie...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertain...79f55ae791 Quote:The headlines this month have been alarming. “Steve Bannon’s obsession with a dark theory of history should be worrisome” (Business Inside...
Dan '82 Theory Related Political Discussions 32 24,345 02-26-2017, 05:59 PM
    Thread: Intra-Elite Competition: A Key Concept for Understanding the Dynamics of Complex Soc
Post: Intra-Elite Competition: A Key Concept for Underst...

http://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/int...societies/ Quote:Intra-elite competition is one of the most important factors explaining massive waves of social and political instability, which periodical...
Dan '82 Peter Turchin's Theroies 5 6,974 02-18-2017, 07:08 PM
    Thread: Steve Bannon is obsessed with The Fourth Turning
Post: Steve Bannon is obsessed with The Fourth Turning

http://www.businessinsider.com/book-stev...?r=UK&IR=T Quote:   President Trump's adviser, Steve Bannon, is on the cover of this week's Time magazine, and in the piece it is revealed that Bannon ...
Dan '82 Theory Related Political Discussions 17 11,832 02-03-2017, 08:46 AM
    Thread: Inauguration of the movement against Trump and for Justice
Post: RE: Inauguration of the movement against Trump and...

please try to avoid personal attacks.
Dan '82 General Political Discussion 75 36,082 01-31-2017, 09:32 PM
    Thread: Donald Trump: America's Berlusconi?
Post: RE: Donald Trump: America's Berlusconi?

Guys could you try to cool it a little, and try to avoid personal attacks
Dan '82 The Graveyard 196 125,443 01-13-2017, 09:56 PM
    Thread: I'm back
Post: I'm back

Due to holiday travel I wasn’t able to moderate the forum is closely as usual; I’m back and will now be monitoring it more closely.
Dan '82 Announcements 3 5,952 01-07-2017, 11:21 PM
    Thread: Presidential election, 2016
Post: RE: Presidential election, 2016

I moved some posts where people were discussing each other instead of the topic at hand.
Dan '82 General Political Discussion 1,224 673,706 01-07-2017, 11:18 PM
    Thread: Trump Trainwreck - Ongoing diary of betrayal and evil
Post: RE: Trump Trainwreck - Ongoing diary of betrayal a...

I've been busy because of Christmas I split off a bunch of posts that were getting too personal, please knock it off.
Dan '82 General Political Discussion 892 479,958 12-29-2016, 05:37 PM
    Thread: Trump Trainwreck - Ongoing diary of betrayal and evil
Post: RE: Trump Trainwreck - Ongoing diary of betrayal a...

Hey guys, this thread is getting a little too heated could you cool it down a bit.
Dan '82 General Political Discussion 892 479,958 12-20-2016, 08:18 PM
    Thread: Trump taps campaign aide Stephen Miller as senior adviser
Post: Trump taps campaign aide Stephen Miller as senior ...

Looks like we have the first millennial with significant influence: http://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-tru...icy-232592 Quote:President-elect Donald Trump has picked Stephen Miller, a top poli...
Dan '82 General Political Discussion 1 1,506 12-13-2016, 09:50 PM
    Thread: Why rural voters don’t vote Democratic anymore
Post: RE: Why rural voters don’t vote Democratic anymore

(12-08-2016, 07:53 AM)Odin Wrote: Something I've noticed is that even in this election the parts of the rural Midwest Colin Woodard have as part of Yankeedom are significantly less Republican than o...
Dan '82 General Political Discussion 82 52,210 12-09-2016, 11:46 PM
    Thread: Presidential election, 2016
Post: RE: Presidential election, 2016

Please try to avoid personal insults.
Dan '82 General Political Discussion 1,224 673,706 12-05-2016, 10:36 PM
    Thread: Sweden's pioneering free press act turns 250
Post: Sweden's pioneering free press act turns 250

http://www.thelocal.se/20161202/happy-25...-press-act Quote:Today marks the 250th anniversary of Sweden's Freedom of the Press Act, and at a time where both freedom of information and questions ove...
Dan '82 Beyond America 0 1,459 12-04-2016, 08:56 AM
    Thread: Debunking the myth that millennials are ushering in the end of the Western world
Post: Debunking the myth that millennials are ushering i...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk...4cfb1e75de Quote:Now is the season for democracy’s doomsayers. Between the election of Donald Trump and the rise of the far-right nationalist parties in Eu...
Dan '82 The Millennial Generation 5 5,768 12-03-2016, 10:01 PM
    Thread: A Half Dozen Reasons Why Trump Isn't the Second Coming of Reagan
Post: A Half Dozen Reasons Why Trump Isn't the Second Co...

https://app.hedgeye.com/insights/55622-6...nomic-boom Quote:[Image: https://d1yhils6iwh5l5.cloudfront.net/ch...reagan.png]   We're Entering a New Reagan Boom--NOT! Trump first dazzled American pop ...
Dan '82 Neil Howe & The First Turning 14 13,278 11-29-2016, 05:58 PM
    Thread: Trump Trainwreck - Ongoing diary of betrayal and evil
Post: RE: Trump Trainwreck - Ongoing diary of betrayal a...

Dan '82 General Political Discussion 892 479,958 11-28-2016, 09:46 PM