The Storm Before the Calm: America's discord, the coming crisis of the 2020s, and the triumph beyond

and those who will be falling into the abyss are not a small marginal class but a large, multiracial, multiethnic class containing equal numbers of women and men.

The financial problem that will frame the sixth cycle is a surplus of money in the economic system and its distribution. The surplus arose from the success of the fifth cycle and the maturation of the microchip economy. As I’ve mentioned several times, the big issue is lots of available money and not enough opportunities to invest in things that cr

But accepting the idea that expertise can result in failure will require a stunning shift in the public’s perspective, even though holding the government in contempt has long been part of the culture. This is a key threat to the institutional structure of the third cycle and the technocracy that controls the institutions.

and those technocrats who must be disrupted in order to rebuild an efficient government and public life.

1945, emerging from World War II, and dramatically expanded the authority of the federal government not only over states but over the economy and society as a whole.

and the nation begins to entertain the possibility that the American project has failed.

First, the governing class, and the technocrats, accumulate power and wealth, and they begin to shape the institutions to protect their interests.

The university is the battleground of the crisis of the 2020s because it is the system that fuels the broad social bureaucracy.

Therefore, Trump does not represent the transition to the new era. He is instead the first tremor who appeared decisive to his supporters and frightening to his opponents. Trump is the first indicator of a struggle between two classes. But while the ascending class has not yet reached its limit, the descending class is continually bleeding power. T

of the federal government will be questioned.