Taking a contrarian view that authoritarian regimes are likely to be more successful during an Awakening / Second Turning than during a Crisis / Fourth Turning

Here’s where I first ran into Sarah Kendzior on Twitter (October 22, 2016)

https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/790030495568437248

And the more recent, relatively hopeful tweet

https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/890375102126272512

Charles Mann’s 1491 is about the New World before Columbus arrived, and the varied cultures across the continents. Highly recommended. The Mexica history is on pages 130-134 of my paperback copy. And if it wasn’t clear, the Mexica were the people ruling what is now Mexico when Cortez arrived.

You may want to take a look at Episode 15, Unforgivable Dullness, to hear more about Cromwell and the Turnings during the 17th Century.

Some links on the Third Wave, that 1967 high school social experiment.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3559727/The-Wave-the-experiment-that-turned-a-school-into-a-police-state.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave_(experiment)

You can find me on Twitter: @generationalize and blogging at  http://crisis.generationalize.com