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Thread: Peter Turchin: Entering the Age of Instability after Trump
Post: RE: Peter Turchin: Entering the Age of Instability...
New post. This one on the current social moment in sociocultural terms
https://mikealexander.substack.com/p/cyc...calization |
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Peter Turchin's Theroies |
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02-27-2023, 08:21 PM |
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Thread: The Log Cabin Libertarians?
Post: RE: The Log Cabin Libertarians?
I cannot remember whether I posted this here. I have written a book about our current crisis. It is the result of 25 years of inquiry. Although heavily influenced by S&H, I ultimately rejected the... |
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Mikebert |
Society and Culture |
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04-20-2022, 06:18 PM |
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Thread: Is It "Just Me," or Are We STILL in a 3T?
Post: RE: Is It "Just Me," or Are We STILL in a 3T?
(11-14-2021, 04:27 PM)galaxy Wrote: We are not in a 37-year turning.
2008-2020 was a bit of an ambiguous period, but now we are *definitely* in a 4T.
I guess it's a bit of a division like the 3T b... |
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Mikebert |
Turnings |
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02-08-2022, 05:48 PM |
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Thread: Who else would like politics to be humdrum?
Post: RE: Who else would like politics to be humdrum?
(02-04-2022, 10:20 AM)David Horn Wrote: The real problem is a VR World, and it's coming. VR was shown quite vividly in the movie Ready Player One. VR World can be anything we can imagine, and livi... |
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Mikebert |
Theory Related Political Discussions |
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02-08-2022, 05:07 PM |
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Thread: Crisis in America (new book)
Post: RE: Crisis in America (new book)
So I think the S&H theory has been invalidated. I now employ Peter Turchin's secular cycle for periodization. His cycle also has four periods: growth (1942-73), stagnation (1973-2006), crisis (200... |
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Mikebert |
Theories Of History |
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02-08-2022, 05:03 PM |
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Thread: Crisis in America (new book)
Post: Crisis in America (new book)
Over the last two years I wrote a book about the current crisis in America. Here is a pdf of the manuscript.
https://mikebert.neocities.org/America-in-crisis.pdf
I use a secular cycle framework rath... |
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Mikebert |
Theories Of History |
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02-08-2022, 04:38 PM |
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Thread: The Partisan Divide on Issues
Post: RE: The Partisan Divide on Issues
(09-16-2020, 12:16 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: (09-15-2020, 11:33 AM)Mikebert Wrote: (09-09-2020, 01:57 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: That's what you thought but you still had to ask? Well, I'd still leave yo... |
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Mikebert |
General Political Discussion |
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09-18-2020, 12:09 PM |
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Thread: The Partisan Divide on Issues
Post: RE: The Partisan Divide on Issues
(09-09-2020, 01:57 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: That's what you thought but you still had to ask? Well, I'd still leave you hanging from a limb and I'd still leave you to fend for yourself or leave you to ... |
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Mikebert |
General Political Discussion |
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09-15-2020, 11:33 AM |
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Thread: The Partisan Divide on Issues
Post: RE: The Partisan Divide on Issues
(09-07-2020, 11:16 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Dude, I've never had an interest in your personal property, your personal income/ wealth or your family related issues that may grow beyond family related a... |
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Mikebert |
General Political Discussion |
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09-08-2020, 12:41 PM |
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Thread: The Partisan Divide on Issues
Post: RE: The Partisan Divide on Issues
(08-30-2020, 05:43 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Did you know that its illegal to protect your property in Minneapolis or confront someone who is stealing your stuff in Minneapolis? You have rights, I have ... |
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Mikebert |
General Political Discussion |
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09-07-2020, 08:46 AM |
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Thread: The Partisan Divide on Issues
Post: RE: The Partisan Divide on Issues
(08-29-2020, 12:18 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: You better think harder than you normally do because you're response may determine whether you live or die because it's pretty clear that it's my group who ... |
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Mikebert |
General Political Discussion |
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08-30-2020, 04:05 PM |
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Thread: I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in 2008
Post: RE: I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in ...
(08-17-2020, 10:30 AM)David Horn Wrote: But eventually, the youth will have had enough. It may take a decade or two (what could be the 2T in the S&H cycle), but the longer it takes to get there... |
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Mikebert |
Turnings |
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08-20-2020, 01:45 PM |
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Thread: I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in 2008
Post: RE: I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in ...
(08-16-2020, 10:35 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: (08-16-2020, 03:03 PM)Mikebert Wrote: 4. External conquest or at least invasion. Robert Butler has dealt with this one, so this is out.
Should I go look... |
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Turnings |
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08-20-2020, 01:35 PM |
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Thread: I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in 2008
Post: RE: I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in ...
(08-07-2020, 02:17 PM)TeacherinExile Wrote: I know, I know...you and Eric are talking about an internal war (civil, guerilla or otherwise), not an external conflict. True, a guerilla war is asymmet... |
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Mikebert |
Turnings |
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08-16-2020, 03:03 PM |
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Thread: I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in 2008
Post: RE: I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in ...
(08-07-2020, 03:51 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: History has operated by slightly-different rules in the Industrial Age than in the Agrarian Age, and may operate differently in the post-Industrial age.
True
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Mikebert |
Turnings |
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08-08-2020, 10:50 AM |
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Thread: I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in 2008
Post: RE: I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in ...
(08-04-2020, 03:23 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: (08-03-2020, 04:16 PM)Mikebert Wrote: The Armada doesn't even look like a 4T. Have you ever seen anyone use examples from THAT crisis to illustrate 4T i... |
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Turnings |
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08-08-2020, 09:48 AM |
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Thread: I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in 2008
Post: RE: I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in ...
Bob Butler 54I did call trigger on COVID 19 fairly early. A big part of red ethics was small government, low taxes, ignore the science and ignore all problems.
But its not. That's just their schtic... |
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08-03-2020, 06:57 PM |
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Thread: I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in 2008
Post: RE: I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in ...
A very simple way to put the saeculum is during a 4T a new order is formed. This order works well for a time and then runs into difficulty when it encounters issues in the 2T that were not salient wh... |
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08-03-2020, 04:16 PM |
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Thread: I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in 2008
Post: RE: I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in ...
(08-03-2020, 02:01 AM)TeacherinExile Wrote: Mikebert:
So I have a question for you, and I pose it with all due respect because I have read your posts over the years with more than a little interest,... |
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Turnings |
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08-03-2020, 07:58 AM |
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Thread: I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in 2008
Post: RE: I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in ...
(07-31-2020, 02:35 PM)TeacherinExile Wrote: (07-31-2020, 02:17 PM)Mikebert Wrote: (07-30-2020, 07:29 PM)RadianMay Wrote: Perhaps. I’ve given the thought that this Crisis might have started in 20... |
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Turnings |
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08-02-2020, 09:21 PM |
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Thread: I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in 2008
Post: RE: I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in ...
(07-30-2020, 07:29 PM)RadianMay Wrote: Perhaps. I’ve given the thought that this Crisis might have started in 2017 perhaps with Trump’s rise to presidency. That could have been the event that passed... |
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07-31-2020, 02:17 PM |
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Thread: I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in 2008
Post: RE: I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in ...
(07-28-2020, 12:26 PM)Einzige Wrote: Now, we did get a lot of physical infrastructure out of the last High - the Interstate Highway System, NASA, etc.
Did we get much in the way of social infrastru... |
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Mikebert |
Turnings |
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07-28-2020, 01:16 PM |
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Thread: I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in 2008
Post: RE: I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in ...
(07-26-2020, 09:47 PM)Marc Lamb Wrote: A solid case for the most dominate issue of the 1932 political campaign was not the 1929 market crash, but rather repeal of the 18th Amendment. Kinda destroys ... |
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Turnings |
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07-27-2020, 08:37 PM |
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Thread: I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in 2008
Post: RE: I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in ...
(07-24-2020, 09:38 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Clearly, you have more political revolutions and critical elections that S&H proposed crises. Not all of them can be crises.
They aren't. Critical ele... |
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Mikebert |
Turnings |
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07-25-2020, 06:05 PM |
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Thread: I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in 2008
Post: RE: I'm a sceptic that the 4th Turning started in ...
(07-21-2020, 09:31 PM)Marc Lamb Wrote: We now be 4t, officially ... finally!
Yep, but I would submit it has only begun recently, and so not in line with generations as currently constituted.
Also I... |
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Turnings |
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07-24-2020, 06:20 AM |