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This book is going to be top shelf. Happy New Year.

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Best of wishes to you and your family in the new year.

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P.S. I would definitely join this club just to learn about Sorokin. Spengler and Toynbee are real intellectual pleasures, as is Dugin. But I know too little about Sorokin, the academy doesn't touch this work. Also underrated prophet o' doom - Jane Jacobs, her final book Dark Age Ahead. Of course Ivan Illich and other theologians, that could include Jacques Ellul, Latour, and McLuhan.

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Hello dear Bertie. Just read your groan about Tainter and Turchin in Telegram. Even if you start to despise their scientific worldviews, they ARE your only damn scientists in the list (at least modern science, which is probably why you start to hate them). And Sorokin maybe, but like the others you have philosophers and historians. I'm a career scientist and author, and actually come here to read your humanities and philosophy. I'm about ready to pay something.

But these are cultural-historical arguments, and come down to choice. To a position of worldviews, that I choose Evola's principles, or Spengler over BHL's or Rawls (which I do, but you can't survive in academia on this). These are aesthetic and political choices. But you can't cite any of these Prophets in a paper. You CAN cite Turchin, and in a bad mood, Tainter (he's very popular in my crowd). And Turchin has decades of damn good data, modeling that works, and hypotheses that have powerful predictive value. Without Turchin, you have philosophy and classics, and you won't convince anyone outside the club that they still matter.

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Mind sharing a bit more about the book you're writing? I'm new here.

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Alex and Birdie, if you see this please post some links to your stuff 👍

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The Christmas party stream doesn't include any links to the participants. Who are Alex and Birdie? Can't find them.

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Happy new year AA and everyone else

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Thanks for all you do AA!

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Happy New Year to you and your loved ones, AA! I'm looking forward to your new book, but please make sure to give yourself some rest after this.

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I’m thinking this ‘Prophets of Doom’ is going to be something special.

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Happy New Year🥳!!. Thank you for your work and may 2023 be a greater year for all of us🤗!!

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I'm currently reading The Revolt of the Masses. It seems to quite neatly tie together the idea of the mass man, elite theory and the civilisational stuff.

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Parseltongue is an excellent pattern to follow since it's existence is only known by magic but only muggles have developed the science of linguistics.

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