[T]here are important recurring patterns... throughout... human history over the past ten thousand years. - Peter Turchin

[G]rowing socio-political instability results from multiple interacting factors: economic, political, and cultural.

SDT gives us understanding of the deep structural causes of socio-political instability and... tools for adopting... reforms and policy interventions that can reverse these drivers... It remains to be seen whether our society will be able to use these tools.

[W]e should not expand our system of higher education... An excess of young people with advanced degrees has been one of the chief causes of instability...