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66: Peter Turchin - Why Empires Rise & Fall

The Nietzsche Podcast

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How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Co-Operators on Earth

CleoDynamics is based on the idea that cooperation and competition aren't opposites. The term secular refers to something which occurs once a century or longer. In this secular cycle we have a phase lasting about 100 years, where social structure integrates. We then get what Peter Turchen calls a trend reversal; it's around 125 years. That's when society begins moving in the opposite direction ofintegrative and disintegrative phases. And finally achieves abundance and prosperity as Ibn Khaldun sees it.

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