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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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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#3. CRs win because the fight itself becomes paramount, not the endgame/exit; the issue is always The Revolution - not until they win, but as a way of life. They stop only because sociopolitical entropy burns them out with nobody to fight and nobody to do the fighting.
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That last one sounds, effectively, like retiring the movement.
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