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The Great Holocene Transformation:
What Complexity Science Tells Us about the Evolution of Complex Societies
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Peter Turchin
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Peter Turchin
@Peter_Turchin
Cliodynamics, Social and Cultural Evolution
Project Leader, Complexity Science Hub, Vienna
Blog: peterturchin.substack.com
- The mechanics of history (in the interpretation of Yoann Bourgeois) = "one damn thing after another"
- This is probably the most vivid evidence of immiseration that I've seen so far. From: The expanding class divide in happiness in the United States, 1972–2016. Twenge, J. M., & Cooper, A. B. (2020) doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi…
- Is America on the brink of a civil war? Want to know about deep structural causes? Read #AgesOfDiscord amazon.com/Ages-Discord-P…
- It's one thing to predict a spike of sociopolitical instability in the abstract, it's another one to see it all break out in a cityscape that I know well... x.com/leticiamasonet…
- This is a terrific illustration of why natural grasslands with ungulates (thus, a source of meat) are better for the environment than agricultural fields (thus, a source of plant food).
- Fantastic performance -- bagpipes jazz!
- As someone who grew up in the late Soviet Union, I have an incredible feeling of deja vu. It is #EndTimes indeed.I first pointed out that we’re in Cold War II back in 2018. But it only recently struck me that in this new Cold War, we—and not the Chinese—might be the Soviets. 1/13 thefp.com/p/were-all-sov…
- My new trade book End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration Published on June 13, 2023 by Penguin Random House in US and Allen Lane in UK
- The link between elite overproduction and cutthroat competition explained and illustrated telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/2…
