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The Atlantic (2020.12) The Last Children of Down Syndrome

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https://concen.org/node/41248

Eugenics is back, kids.

Thanks for the download; Concen members may also be interested in one other article in this issue, "The Next Decade Could Be Even Worse
A historian believes he has discovered iron laws that predict the rise and fall of societies. He has bad news."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/12/can-history-predict...

Peter Turchin, a Russian-American scientist, specializing in cultural evolution and cliodynamics—mathematical modeling and statistical analysis of the dynamics of historical societies, warns that a few key social and political trends portend an “age of discord,” civil unrest and carnage worse than most Americans have experienced. In 2010, he predicted that the unrest would get serious around 2020, and that it wouldn’t let up until those social and political trends reversed. Havoc at the level of the late 1960s and early ’70s is the best-case scenario; all-out civil war is the worst.

The fundamental problems, he says, are a dark triad of social maladies: a bloated elite class, with too few elite jobs to go around; declining living standards among the general population; and a government that can’t cover its financial positions...