I'm more of a student of civilisational mechanics/civilisation cycles analyst/researcher. The scientists are gradually moving into history which used to be more of an art. History is "a vast early warning system" but you need to know how to read the mood-music like any complex discipline.

It's been an epic journey thus far spanning millennia, from Thucydides (History of the Peloponnesian war) to Sima Qian's (Records of the Grand Historian). From Ibn Khaldun's (The Muqaddimah) to Edward Gibbon's (The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire). From Oswald Spengler's (Decline of the West) to the scientific frontiers of this discipline, Jim Penman's (Biohistory), with which to make better predictions in the knowledge that the past is the future.

Please follow if you're interested in civilisational mechanics, how it applies today in real-time, where we analyse multi-disciplinary subjects such as history, biology, cross-cultural anthropology, economics, epigenetics, neuroendocrinology & more.

Environment, cultural values & childrearing patterns etc., all combine to determine whether societies prosper or collapse, how social change can be both predicted & potentially modified through biochemistry. Some scientists believe that our only hope now for civilisation may lie hidden deep within human nature itself. Perhaps we can unlock secrets where others have failed. Time no longer an ally.

Hopefully many of the posts we hash out will be a combination of autistic-unfiltered truth + intellectual sadism + satire = insightful entertainment.

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