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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2/ I know of three things that pattern match to CR: French Revolution, China's CR under Mao, and the current Great Awokening in the US and Western Europe. One theory is that CRs come from above (e.g. Mao's). Another is that they come from below (France? The US ?).
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3/ One friend (not at all red-tribe, so don't dismiss the following as pattern matching to Alex Jones) suggests that Soros has greatly increased the intensity of the American CR by funding and selectively helping small groups. So, top down.
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4/ Another friend has suggested that the crash of 2008, which cut off gainful employment for tons of kids graduating with liberal arts degrees, at the EXACT SAME TIME as the rise of high-metrics-online media channeled this cohort into a machine that rewarded them for outrage.
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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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