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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I came here expecting to see a bump in the 60s and 70s and can't help but wonder if they deliberately cut the graph where they did
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BuzzFeed News
@BuzzFeedNews
A statistic called the political stress indicator, which can warn when societies are at risk of erupting into violence, was developed by evolutionary anthropologist Peter Turchin. It's spiking in America, just like it did before the Civil War.
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Joey
@sassafrasind
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@Aella_Girl
I thought the exact same thing. Tim Pool talked about this graph but didn't bring up the 60's Vietnam turmoil. A president resigned during a political scandal in the 70's. It definitely would of spiked.
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William Eden
@WilliamAEden
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@Aella_Girl
Here is Turchin himself with a graph going back into the 60s and 70s. It shows the PSI being elevated but much more mildly than today:
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Peter Turchin
@Peter_Turchin
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Well, here's a snapshot from a grant proposal that we have just submitted to a European funder. I don't know if this is going to be helpful, because I can't share the rest of the proposal. But the forecast is that 2020 is not the end.
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