Late Bronze Age collapse
Event in History
Late Bronze Age collapse has come up in 2 episodes across 2 podcasts in TMT, including The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, The Joe Rogan Experience. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Jiang XueqinYale-educated geopolitical analyst and commentator known for forecasts about global conflict and the decline of American hegemony
Jiang argues the closest historical analogy to the present is the Bronze Age collapse, driven by globalization producing inequality, debt and polarization.
“I would argue the closest historical analogy that we have to today is a Bronze Age collapse”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Professor Jiang: Three Predictions On the Collapse of the World Order (Sep 14, 2026) · Listen from 10:36
Jiang claims the world will experience not a world war but the collapse of civilization over the next two decades.
“We will live through for the next 20 years the collapse of civilization itself”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Professor Jiang: Three Predictions On the Collapse of the World Order (Sep 14, 2026) · Listen from 10:09
Jared DiamondAmerican geographer, historian and author of "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and "Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings"
Diamond says the loss of Greek Linear B writing was due to the broader Bronze Age collapse rather than the Trojan War, and its cause remains unknown.
“But there was a much broader collapse of Bronze Age civilization in the whole Eastern Mediterranean, and we don't know why”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2549 - Jared Diamond (Sep 3, 2026) · Listen from 1:23:55
Podcasts
- The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 1 episode
- The Joe Rogan Experience · 1 episode
Episodes
Professor Jiang: Three Predictions On the Collapse of the World OrderThe Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Sep 14, 2026 · 1 h 48 min
Geopolitical analyst Jiang Xueqin tells Steven Bartlett the petrodollar order is collapsing and offers predictions about war, finance and migration.
#2549 - Jared DiamondThe Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 3, 2026 · 2 h 34 min
Jared Diamond talks with Joe Rogan about leadership, the rise of world religions, the origins of writing, language, and cannibalism and Kuru in New Guinea.