One of my weird growing beliefs is that despite its squishy, messy appearance, politics has as much native precision as physics.
We used to think biology was squishy messy stuff until we discovered DNA and realized it was just more complex and illegible computation/math.
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Steve Bannon apparently agrees, and follows this line of thinking. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E
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I like Strauss and Howe model too 😀
But it’s not good enough for what I’m thinking about. That’s just vague Elliot cycle level apophenia. Fun but not law level.
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The only true science is physics. Biology is physics, chemistry is physics etc. social systems are not physics. They have reflexive properties. They may have underlying behavioral laws but that doesn’t make it physics.
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Not saying they have it all solved, but "political engineers" are way ahead of "political scientists" on this...



