The assassination of Charlie Kirk puts us on a precipice, I think. People think they’re justified in killing people with whom they disagree, and that endangers a political system that has produced the finest military ever.
Intolerant, arrogant assholes on both sides are trying to tear us down because of their firm belief that they’re the smart ones, or a silent God is on their side.
I did not pay attention to Mr Kirk, so I have no opinion, but, just like State Senator Hortman’s assassination, Kirk represents another step in the Structural-Demographic Theory’s disintegrative phase (same link), as arrogance and impatience with divergent opinions leads to fatal conflicts.
Professor Turchin’s work suggests that in rural societies it takes about fifty years for the adamant to realize that civil war is not a fake war, but leads to horrible deaths and a weakening of the country. Will that hold true for our technological society?
