Found it - listened - switched off when the guy claims that the Russian revolution was for real "from below" - how naive is that!?
Anyway, this is why I rarely read or listen to sociologists, as they never seem to come up with a real reason. It's like knowing how to bend metal without any knowledge of atoms - hence never knowing why materials behave differently.
Lobaczewski takes great pains to describe the progression of the psychopathic state as a psychological phenomenon. Calculating the different cycle lengths is totally unimportant. The cycles depend on progress and feedback. The process by which this takes place gives more insights into how to stop it - and why it doesn't get stopped. Mass psychosis does not happen without individual psychoses.
These cycles are expressions of a disease. ;-)
I have to admit that I am historically illiterate when it comes to Russia, so those kinds of details would have escaped me.
I have not learned anything about Lobaczewski's work, nor do I yet know what ponerology means, but will look it up when I finish here. The generational theory argues that certain cycles are sociological, as well as psychological, hence factor in more than progress or feedback. From what I gathered in the interview, even Lobaczewski roughly calculates a 200 year cycle. As I mentioned before, I don't listen to these podcasts often because I'm just not literate enough to follow certain ideas. But I would say that in this case, I know a little more about the generational theory than the chaps in the video. I could have provided some better insights where I saw that they were struggling with the theory. And part of that struggling I believe comes from the fact that they read The Fourth Turning by Howe and Strauss, but did not read the foundational work Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069. I read both.
But when it came to the part about Lobaczewski, which they would be much more enlightened than me, it seemed that they were concluding that it fit into the generational model. And when it really got interesting for me is when they connected the rise of WOKISM with The Fourth Turning or what I call the Crisis Season. In this Season, the Hero Generation, known as the Millennials (born from 1981 to around 2006), are dominant across the university landscape. What I can't figure out is what role is my generation, the Nomad Generation, known as Generation X (born from 1961 to 1981), is playing in all this, because I have been away from the States since 2001, but I'm certain that none of the people I grew up with would be spouting this WOKE bullshit. I can just hear myself now saying to my friends, "What the fuck are you talking about?! White Fragility?! Micro-aggressions?! What the fuck you been smoking, Bro?!"