1/ I read this yesterday and it made me realize how deeply we are into the American Cultural Revolution, and that made me start to think about cultural revolutions (henceforth "CR") more generally. Where they come from, how they end, what happens after they end.https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1223308127413497856 …
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5/ It's an interesting question, and one I want to understand, but don't fully yet. Another interesting question is how do CRs end ? The Chinese CR ended, officially, with Mao's fiat, but ended more fully after he died, under Deng Xiaoping.
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6/ The French CR ended ... how, exactly? With the success of the French Revolution? With the end of the First Republic? I don't know. I can generate three theories for endings: * the CR side wins completely and has nothing more to prove / no enemies yet to kill * CR loses
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7/ ...and finally: * CR runs out of enthusiasm / calories. Ooh, wait, a fourth one. There's one story, I maybe heard it from
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8/ I agree. Anyone else want to nominate other CRs? (However, one theory: perhaps CR can't exist without sufficient information technology. This dovetails with my theory that Hitler can't exist without radio and trains.)https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1223310206332882944 …
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10/ Anyway, I'd love to see a full science of CRs: * how they form * using that knowledge, how to prevent them * how they end * using that knowledge, how to end them earlier, with a lower body count
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There is a really good article about the 2008 crash destroying political opportunity leading to AOC's rise (because she would most likely be in a NGO or like a Move On or even State Department) but instead she's overqualified working at a dive bar and then..
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Noteworthy: one of the conditions present in europe at the time of the February revolution (the final french CR in 1848) was a vast number of angry, un[der]employed, university educated critics who had studied the 1st french revolution, but not lived through it.
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