I'm really not sure it will pan out as they describe.

But I find it very useful to adopt their framing to look at what's coming, in particular these 2 extracts:

"Market forces, not political majorities, will compel societies to reconfigure themselves in ways that public opinion will neither comprehend nor welcome. As they do, the naïve view that history is what people wish it to be will prove wildly misleading."

"the most important causes of change are not to be found in political manifestos or in the pronouncements of dead economists, but in the hidden factors that alter the boundaries where power is exercised. Often, subtle changes in climate, topography, microbes, and technology alter the logic of violence. They transform the way people organize their livelihoods and defend themselves."

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At this point I see all the dominoes falling and many of their predictions start to become more and more realistic.