I have frequently written or mentioned Peter Turchin's book, End Times, in this blog, including this review from 2023 and this 2024 post on what Turchin calls the wealth pump. The video, below, presents his ideas as well, focusing on the two key drivers of revolution: popular immiseration and elite overproduction. If you want a quick overview of Turchin's ideas and research, this is a good source.
VIDEO: "This Book Explains Why Our Elites Are Cheering on The Collapse"
RuminationNationOfficial (21 min.)
And while we are on this subject, you might want to watch the video from Tucker Carlson, below, that discusses topics that are or soon will be exacerbating popular immiseration, elite overproduction, and the wealth pump: AI will soon be putting millions of white collar workers our of work; and the continued importation of foreign labor at the same time as jobs disappear. In the first video, above, the host described the issue with elite overproduction being too many elites for too many positions. He used the example of musical chairs except that the number of chairs remains the same, but the number of players keeps increasing. What the combination of AI and immigration will do is start removing chairs as the same time the number of players increase--this is a perfect storm for fomenting the unrest necessary for civil war. Worse, as Tucker points out, there are many things that could be done to encourage immigrants to leave the country but no one (i.e., Congress) is doing anything about it. (As an aside, I think that Tucker is too critical of Trump on this point--most of the ideas that Tucker suggests cannot be carried out by the President but would require Congress to change the law).
VIDEO: "It’s a Recipe for Revolution, Chaos, and Collapse…"
Tucker Carlson Network (11 min.)
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