Interesting. Thank you.

>>>Not end-game. Just that the current (Reagan & Thatcher and onwards) deregulation will need a vast swing in the opposite direction, or into a completely different direction. The unleashed thing that's going on now is bound to become worse, left to its own influence. And we're actually out of the domain of theory here, it's just the way the money is distributed. Unless they come up with another theory to justify the imbalance of this distribution.
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>>You might enjoy this: http://www.fourthturning.com/
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>As light reading, maybe. While there may be something in the overall mechanism of generation shifts, he's about to be wrong in his predictions just like the others. And there's the Western disease of looking for/into/unto leaders. The first generation which decides they don't really need leaders, simply because they don't like being led and feel they can do their thinking for themselves, will throw his theory into the bunch he criticizes in the beginning. But it may fail even before that.
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>The only axiom of social sciences (aka humanities) is "the people will behave" - and while everything else follows from there, there's no way one can build a surprise-proof theory based on that. The people can surprise anyone.