The Storm Before the Calm
author of The Next 100 Years focuses on the United States, predicting how the 2020s will bring dramatic upheaval and reshaping of American government, foreign policy, economics, and culture"
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- You may be interested in "The Storm Before The Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond" by George Friedman.
Published February 2020 (wow timing), he lays out a plausible-seeming decade based on historical patterns of culture in the US.
You may not buy the premise, but it is still comforting to read someone predicting "don't worry, this only lasts about a decade" written right before everyone went crazy.
- Have you read "The Storm Before The Calm" by George Friedman? He makes a lot of very similar predictions to you. Highly recommend reading this book.
I generally agree with these predictions. My sense is that our society has SERIOUSLY screwed up the natural balance of the economy in an unprecedented way. It's going to get a lot worse, and it's going to feed directly into the deepening political polarization we've all seen. Right now the most important questions are: how do I position myself so that I am maximally protected during this upheaval? And what does the end state look like?
