Secular Cycles and Political Disintegration

The first of a series of lectures examining Turchin's work in Ages of Discord, a structural-demographic analysis of American history.
Topics in this episode
- Imperiopathosis: the current situation, its underlying dynamics
- Basics of secular cycles
- Population-elites-state as fundamental factors
- Political Stress Index (PSI) = Mass Mobilization Potential x Elite Mobilization Potential x State Fiscal Distress
- Symptoms of political instability
- Examining symptoms in a past "age of discord": The Gilded Age - The Violent Teens
-Examining symptoms in our own "age of discord": The Turbulent 2020s