10-02-2016, 07:19 PM
(10-02-2016, 10:43 AM)Dan 82 Wrote: http://www.salon.com/2016/10/01/breaking...socialflow
Quote:As the 2016 campaign reaches fever pitch, the more heat there is and the less light is shed. Which is why evolutionary anthropologist Peter Turchin’s new book comes as such a breath of fresh air. “Ages of Discord: A Structural-Demographic Analysis of American History” is not about this year’s presidential election, per se, but it’s a quantum leap forward in illuminating the disintegrative trends that America has experienced over the last several decades that are currently driving our politics.
Everything from skyrocketing inequality and political gridlock to white working class angst and the rise of mass shootings and other troubling signs of our times — these are all interconnected reflections of where America is in a cyclic historical process: social integration followed by disintegration, discord and violence. Turchin and others have observed this pattern repeatedly in civilizations from ancient Rome and early Chinese dynasties up to the present day...
http://www.salon.com/2016/10/01/breaking...socialflow
These problems are the result of specific policies carried out by the Republicans whom the voters put into office, and by some Democrats who yielded to the Republican power. Mass shootings are the result of libertarian policies regarding guns, and inequality is the result of libertarian policies regarding economics. Libertarian trends are common during 3Ts. That's what this is about, and it will pass as we get deeper into the 4T and into the 1T.