This is one of two episodes referenced in "Waiting for the Worms," with respect to the idea that Awakenings (2nd Turnings) are more amenable to authoritarianism than Crisis (2th Turnings). In recent days, we're speed-running towards confirming that is true or...not so much.

Planning to repost the other older referenced one as well: Midlife in the Crisis.

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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 Bluesky: @generationalize and blogging at  http://crisis.generationalize.com