Historical research on approximately 200 past societies ranging across the world and millennia shows that crises have become less steep, less destructive, and the periods for reconstitution of society and start of new integrative periods happen faster, reflecting cumulative institutional evolution where humanity collectively learns from destructive examples and builds layers of institutions.
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Peter TurchinEvidence Quote
“we have collected data of about on about 200 past societies ranging over the you know over the world and over the Millennia and so what we see is that also there is a tendency for the crisis is to become less steep less destructive and also the periods for the next reconstitution of the society and the new uh uh and the start of a new good integrative period happens faster”
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