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Recently this community was asked about its overal opinion on Edward Dutton in a now-deleted comment. I didn't chime in since I don't have a firm view of the man one way or another, but I did happen to check out one of his latest media appearances a couple of weeks before I saw the comment. Now that there's a new small-scale question thread, I decided to re-listen to that particular segment on the Stark Truth Radio.
Roughly at 47:04, Dutton starts making an argument about generational hormone cycles and references Peter Turchin, and then claims that William Strauss and Neil Howe argued way back in 1997 (in their book The Fourth Turning, presumably) that the 2020s will be a decade of appalling conflicts, because young people will be high on dopamine or something. I find this somewhat surprising, and if Dutton happens to misrepresent or falsify their scientific argument, it's obviously not a sign of his credibility or integrity. I've never read that book so I can't tell if this is the case, but I'm sure at least one regular here has, because generational theory appears to be a popular subject here overall, for good reason, I should add.
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