Unabridged Audiobook
Very interesting in parts but very disappointing in other parts. Turchin seems to be able to accurately assess premodern crises like the civil war (it was not about slavery) but then accepts most mainstream interpretations of modern society. He does not give his personal political opinions outright but he makes a few statements that led me to make a few inferences about what they are and his ideal solution for our current crisis: last century’s progressivism was awesome and everything was great until the Reagan Revolution started messing it up. Clinton’s moving the Democratic Party to the right cemented the decay and put the move to crisis in high gear. We will be saved if the Democratic Party goes back to pre-Clinton liberalism of high taxes, labor unions, regularly raising the minimum wage, and sensible immigration. Also, not every trump voter is a racist right wing extremist but they can be if a competent right winger gains power. That competent right winger is Tucker Carlson. No joke…
Peter Tuchins model for the future is interesting and well documented.
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