Gen Z (feat. Sam Hernandez and Anna Solomon)
Overthink
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I Don't Think History Is a Science
i don't think history is a science, and unfortunately, strauss and howe act as if it is. They use a lot of naturalistic metaphors in the writing to give their theory of the seculum and the four turnings an air of scientificity. It really does have this pseudo scientific veneer to it that ends up simplifying historical events by jamming them into this law of history. And you really see this in the fact that they claim not only descriptive but also predictive power. So i think it's pseudo science.
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