Quote Originally Posted by xerxe View Post
I don't trust people who make money consulting using their theories because they have an incentive to custom-tailor them to their audience, so I don't trust this. Cyclical history is also something a super-majority of historians dispute. It's still a pretty interesting theory, though.
I take it all with a grain of salt. The financial incentive is one reason to be critical of it. However, I think it is one of those grey areas where the theory has truth based on history, but also falsedoms forcing patterns in as well.