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The Fourth Turning is Here Review – A Complex System?
Author: Generation Report
The Fourth Turning is Here Review – My Quick Reaction
Conversation About The Fourth Turning w/ Heidi Briones
Not a light listen, but good for a background listen at home / work before The Fourth Turning is Here arrives Tuesday. Hope you’ll check it out.
Paul Zimmy Finn
The Mainstream Has Made the Generations Conversation a Farce
Strauss-Howe, the New York Times, and Turchin’s Return
Note: I recommend headphones for this episode as I rendered the audio very low by mistake. It was recorded while Turchin’s Ages of Discord was making the rounds in the summer of 2020.
Over the weekend, the execrable New York Times revisited Strauss-Howe generational theory in anticipation of Neil Howe’s forthcoming (and long-awaited) sequel to The Fourth Turning. The article’s headline invoked Strauss and Howe’s theory as “doomsday” (which the NYT had done before), the article itself described the theory as “cult”and quoted several non-believers (predictable), and Neil Howe was referred to passive-aggressively as “[shying] away from casting himself as a modern-day Nostradamus” (also predictable).
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Will “Gen Z” End Democracy? No…Because There is No “Gen Z”
From Utopia to Realists (I Hope, Praise God)
The Mental Defective Who Could Start World War 3
One time ago, a crazy dream came to me
I dreamt I was walkin’ in World War 3
I went to the doctor the very next day
To see what kind of words he had to say
Said it was a “bad dream”…
Bob Dylan
What Would Those Who Came Before Say to Us?
The Lesson of Irreconcilable Differences
Generational Theory and The Fourth Turning: A Review Before the New Book
Generations, and their four recurring archetypes, create and perpetuate history’s seasonal quality.
History offers no guarantees…The outcome of the next Fourth Turning will determine the enduring reputation of the Unraveling in which we now live.
– Strauss & Howe, The Fourth Turning, 1997
Civilizational Disintegration and the Universal State
One of the most conspicuous marks of disintegration…is a phenomenon in the last stage but one of the decline and fall, when a disintegrating civilization purchases a reprieve by submitting to a forcible political unification in a universal state. – Arnold Toynbee, A Study of History, Volume IV: The Breakdowns of Civilizations
This is a Conflict of Visions
Where visions conflict irreconcilably, whole societies may be torn apart. Conflicts of interests dominate the short run, but conflicts of visions dominate history. – Thomas Sowell, Introduction to A Conflict of Visions, 1987
The Left and the Quest for Cosmic Justice
Many of those pursuing a vision of cosmic justice simply take an adversarial position against traditions, morals, and institutions that make the survival of this civilization possible. – Thomas Sowell, The Quest for Cosmic Justice
From April 2021
Paul Zimmy Finn
If We Forget What They Did…
The War Over American History
The roots of today’s symbolic war over the teaching and meaning of American history go back decades, and have passed the point of irreconcilable differences. Here’s to those devoted to keeping the patriotic, truth-based side of this battle going. From July 2021.
Happy Memorial Day.
Paul Zimmy Finn