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It's math. You can model what happens in n-player repeated games of incomplete information, and you'll realize we're far from any stable point. And it's not eve
by dluan 1y ago
It's math. You can model what happens in n-player repeated games of incomplete information, and you'll realize we're far from any stable point. And it's not even that hard to understand that the narrative of "end of history" benefits the people who get to say that and uphold that narrative.
- Avicebron 1y agoCould just be cyclic? 1776->1861 (romanticism leading into civil war), 1861->1940 (modernism leading into WWII), [weird cold war baby boomer era of prosperity] 1970->2025 (post-modernism leading into..)
- djkivi 1y agoSee the Fourth Turning!
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- burnt-resistor 1y ago- Strauss & Howe. Exactly
- hliyan 1y agoConcur, but from a control systems point of view. Any system that does not define upper/lower limits and does not address feedback loops, are prone to oscillations, and if the size of the system grows over time, the oscillations can become progressively more violent. Our socioeconomic/political systems currently do not define any hard upper or lower limits on its primary driver (economic power) and does not address feedback loops (e.g. more capital availability -> larger scale -> more economies of scale -> more market share -> more capital -> more scale).