[fluistulkn]

Bare branch theory

[Equackasous]

Originally posted by Ecthy
"those explanations"? Would you care to come up with some examples, sources etc? Or did you just make up that "theory"?



Nah....it's mainly about a guy called Gunnar Heinsohn. Sloterdijk likes esp. his work on the demographic problem of so-called youth bulges (what I posted above with too much young guys in certain societies etc). But overall the ...uhm... intellectual establishment here seems to be pretty much split about his stuff, some say it's great, others call it bull. He's into some other stuff that is rather rejected by mainstream history, but the demographics thing surfaces from time to time elsewhere too (for example if you know Münkler's works on 'new' wars, concentrating on conflicts esp. in recent times that don't fit in as classic state/state wars)

I thought we have someone here who knows about this stuff and could maybe recommend (non-Kraut) books on this. Or tell if the approach is great or not

[cajonnmu]

Münkler

[medshop]

Interesting reading.
That could explain the success of the 72 virgins marketing campaign.