We Are In A “FOURTH TURNING,” What Does That Mean?

Submitted by Ghost

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19 Comments
James
James
August 8, 2021 10:31 am

Gen X stuck with cleanup,perhaps,but we can all help.

We unfortunately will have to make a hell of a bigger mess first,some of us won’t survive but tis ,us older folks had a good run for most part and owe it to the future.OK,

Ghost
Ghost
August 8, 2021 11:27 am

It is a really worthwhile ten minutes, even if you are familiar with 4T theory.

I made the comment that this Fourth Turning lacks poets (prophets) because many of the fine creative minds of the 60s turned on, tuned out and overdosed on all sorts of narcotics and psychedelic drugs.

What do you think? Do we have any of our wise prophets out there helping direct the “grey champion” whomever that may be?

I think our prophets bit the dust and we are left with propagandists and sycophants.

grace country pastor
grace country pastor
  Ghost
August 8, 2021 1:55 pm

While a Bible believer can not claim to be a prophet, he/she sees clearly the path forward, as the Bible shows us the future. The problem is getting others to listen. Always has been, always will be. For the legitimate prophets of time past as well. People are much more comfortable believing what they want to believe rather than what has been written for 2,000 years.

Harrington Richardson: Have Lamp Posts-Will Travel
Harrington Richardson: Have Lamp Posts-Will Travel
  Ghost
August 8, 2021 2:56 pm

I nominate Steve Bannon as Grey Champion. If you want to see him in action and what he and his band are doing to fight watch Warroom Pandemic. On computer or pad or smart phone just go to Real Americas Voice, click listen live from 9-11 AM cst, Mon-Sat and 4-5PM cst Mon-Fri.
Warroom is a big proponent of 4th Turning. I believe we can take our cues from what goes on there as they have hundreds of thousands of folks like us paying attention and taking action, action, action!

Auntie Kriest
Auntie Kriest

Mr Bannon is, unfortunately, a renown alumnus of that junior Red Shield operation: Sacks of Gold Man.

(He is either controlled opposition or had a genuine “come to Jesus” moment. )

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  Auntie Kriest
August 8, 2021 6:13 pm

There’s only been one perfect man. Bannon has worked a lot of places on Wall Street and Hollyweird. He knows the enemy up close and personal. He has done more for MAGA than anyone I can think of offhand. I will double down on him for potential GC.

Sensop
Sensop
August 8, 2021 1:09 pm

There are several models of cyclic civilization change and social upheaval. Google the Tytler Cycle. All of these theories have in common a repetitive rise and fall of individual freedom and societal tolerance on a grand scale. There is not common agreement on the time it takes to make a complete cycle.

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I figure on the Tytler wheel, we are somewhere between 9 and 12 o’clock, depending on your perspective of our present situation. As I recall, the Tytler model is a 200 year (approx) cycle.

The Tytler Cycle

Ghost
Ghost
  Sensop
August 8, 2021 2:02 pm

Looks interesting. I need a distraction.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Sensop
August 8, 2021 3:19 pm

It is interesting.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Sensop
August 8, 2021 3:19 pm

Liberty to divide the body of Christ. ???

Machinist
Machinist
August 8, 2021 3:08 pm

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And I am not to sure (at all) about the images in the first two blocks.

Ghost
Ghost
  Machinist
August 8, 2021 5:56 pm

My aunt was a creative genius (She’s gone to be with Uncle Kenneth at last! He died three years after World War II, leaving her a young widow with two children.) She farmed the farm and then went to college with them. Became an artist. Never remarried. Said one good husband was more than most women had.

So, she wrote sayings in calligraphy on oil toned parchment for the Bicentennial at various arts and crafts events.

One of my favorites was this, attributed to Author Unknown, who was her favorite pen name as well.

“Behind every Successful Man is a Woman telling him he is wrong.” Author Unknown.

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She was a Poet/Prophet for the LAST Fourth Turning.

Strong Men marry Good Women who nag them.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  Ghost
August 8, 2021 6:16 pm

I must be really strong.

Mr. Ed the Shapeshifting Horse
Mr. Ed the Shapeshifting Horse
August 8, 2021 4:53 pm

These cycles may exist within a country, but they exist within the larger life cycle of the country or civilization. We are at the end of a turning for our country (USA), but more importantly, we may be at the end of life for both our country and western civilization, and maybe even humanity. Sux to be us!

Nevertheless, I’m glad the video guy is keeping a positive attitude and is going to fix the zip line.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  Mr. Ed the Shapeshifting Horse
August 8, 2021 5:11 pm

All living things have a duality of nature- the individual organism and the larger collective of the species. The organism has built in drives/hungers/destiny that either fulfil themselves or the organism- and its genetic inheritance- dies. There is a limited lifespan for every organism, i.e. there is no such thing as everlasting life. What is born must therefore die.

The same is true of all collectives; coral reefs, arboreal forests, human societies.

This is inescapable, it is preordained by the Creator, and it must be fulfilled in order that life continue in a closed system (on Earth, whatever shape or configuration you ascribe to it).

The hidden beauty in this seemingly doomed scenario is that each of these extinctions- the end of the individual life and the collapse or the social order- serve as a compost for future generations. The individual leaves behind his posterity and the civilization provides the genetic stock for a replacement culture.

This is a neither good nor bad scenario.

It simply is.

So to 4th turnings I say-

Ghost
Ghost
  hardscrabble farmer
August 8, 2021 6:01 pm

That always makes me think of this. And, considering I have probably said goodbye to my mother on the phone this week, it might make me mope.

Melty
Melty
August 8, 2021 5:44 pm

Interesting that he moved boomers back 3 or 4 years. I turned 60 and have never thought of myself as part of the boomers. There is a very different mindset between my generation and them. I don’t opine for the 60s as it was a suck decade except for some of the music of the time. My sister is 10 yrs older and the difference is night and day between us along with her age group. They were somewhat rebellious then turned into conformists and ideologues.

My best friend is 70 and I’ve known him for 40 yrs. I had lost track of him for 12 years then got back up with him back in ’13. I red-pilled the hell out of him, and now he’s lost that boomer mentality. He has even become more spiritual and believes in God.

And yes, there is something that’s going to need to be done about the situation to restore liberty and walk this shit back. TPTB don’t realize there is a group that is seething over this.

KJ
KJ
August 8, 2021 6:30 pm

@6:04:

“Gates even predicted a crisis like Covid-19 five years beforehand.”

He “predicted” it. Got that?

bigfoot
bigfoot
  KJ
August 9, 2021 12:22 am

I predict he will be dead sooner than later.