Dude. We all saw this shit coming. A blind man could have seen this coming.

Tl;dr: buckle up, buttercup

It’s a long, long way down and there’s no climbing back so wave bye bye

I enjoyed listening him when was interviewed at this podcast https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/164-peter-turchin

His methodology and arguments are quite reasonable and sounding.

I would recommend

Great. Here's hoping this round of instability meaningfully undermines the Great Satan.

Every "scholar" has been predicting the downfall of society since the beginning of time. What makes this one any different? The old "end is nigh" gambit for views and clicks. We need news to come back, not conjecture. Jack Webb said it best "Just the facts, ma'am.".

Doomsday cults have been around forever. Goes back to the Puritans. This isn’t new.

Man everything has been worse since Halo 3 came out.

Did he mention how long it would take? Because it's somehow happening too slowly and way too fast at the same time.

It didn't sound contrarían to those of us paying attention to the economics, in addition to the social policies. DAE remember the Obama Bear cartoons? "Obama! Obama!”

roll my fuckin eyes. when was 1985 written??

I mean that was right around, or maybe a bit after the tea party movement got started. If you follow that group you see how the ideology infected the republican party and led to Trump. The policies the tea party pushed are basically 1-to-1 with Trumps.

All of it is effectively snake oil politicians using hard times to convince Americans to act against their best interests.

One of the clearest historical parallels to now, he notes, is the 1970s. That decade saw radical movements emerge from university campuses and middle-class enclaves not just in the U.S., but across the West. The far-left Weather Underground movement, which started as a campus organization at the University of Michigan, bombed government buildings and banks; the Red Army Faction in West Germany and Italy's Red Brigades carried out kidnappings and assassinations. These weren't movements of the dispossessed, but of the downwardly mobile—overeducated and politically alienated.

"There's a real risk of that dynamic resurfacing," Turchin said.

People will only stand for getting shit on for so long.

Amusing to watch western academics rediscover dialectical materialism from scratch.

I'm glad we are getting confirmation but you dont have to be an expert to notice.