On: The Next Decade Could Be Even Worse

[hansvs]

It's not clear from the article, but is Turchin only looking at US/North American history? And so do his propositions only apply there?

[titanomachy → hansvs]

He says he's looking at the last 10,000 years of history, so no. He also makes explicit reference to the French Revolution.

[hansvs → titanomachy]

Thanks, on further though this reminds of Strauss–Howe theory [1] that there are generational cycles in history which tend to related to certain archetypes which repeat again and again.

I really do need to look more into Turchin.

EDIT: LOL, I read the Wikipedia article more closely [1] and it seems Turchin has actually talked about this theory, which he feels is more like prophecy than an actual scientific theory.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss–Howe_generational_theo...