just wanted to add #peterturchin to that list of delusional leftie comrades who decided to live in lala-land instead of reality since they tripped up sanders. thank you for your service, and may god have mercy on your 5-year-old soul. (almost forgot about him.)

@paninid Thanks for that. A while back I read, #EndTimes by #PeterTurchin and explored the #SeshatProject Turchin argues his hypothesis that competition among #Lawyers attempting to become the #Elite in #Society spawns its collapse #Cliodynamics #Cliometrics https://www.amazon.com/End-Times-Counter-Elites-Political-Disintegration/dp/0593490509/ref=asc_df_0593490509/

@HistoPol @paninid @Outmazi There are multiple accounts and many doubts depending on which version of History one chooses. That's part of why I want to use Bayesian Analysis and have looked at #PeterTurchin 's #SeshatProject

@HistoPol @Outmazi I don't know if you are aware of him, #PeterTurchin out of University of Connecticut has a couple of projects: #SeshatProject #Cliometrics #Cliodynamics which move toward what Asimov had envisioned. #EndTimes is an interesting read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seshat_(project) https://peterturchin.com/

@DrALJONES @zakalwe @SETSystems Well worth the watch. It would be interesting to hear a recent talk and her take on how things have matured. #PeterTurchin writes about the #EliteCompetition in #EndTimes as well as #BarbaraFWalter

@wdjorth @dbc3 @DrALJONES ALL things have #Lifecycles. #PeterTurchin studies #QuantitativeHistory #Cliometrics #Cliodynamics, has a theory about what causes instabilities: The wealthy--and in particular Lawyers--who compete to become the privileged upper classes--are a fundamental cause of what we are currently experiencing. #EndTimes https://peterturchin.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-cliometrics-and-the-coming-rise-of-cliodynamics/

@jeffowski I read/listened to a book by #PeterTurchin called #EndTimes. It describes what happens when #WhiteCollar #Educated #Lawyers compete for a diminishing number of elite slots among the wealthy.