This is a pretty good 10-minute video synopsis of The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy,* the well-regarded book by Neil Howe and William Strauss. My only criticism of the video is the parroting of official historical narrative, which is always going to be somewhat inaccurate. To really get to historical truth, one must dig through the layers and be willing to think outside the box we have all been placed into.
From the publisher’s notes on the book:
“First comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis—the Fourth Turning—when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history.
William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world—and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about how America’s past will predict what comes next.
Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four twenty-year eras—or "turnings"—that comprise history’s seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth. Illustrating this cycle through a brilliant analysis of the post–World War II period, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for this rendezvous with destiny.”
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Neil Howe wrote a new book 3 years ago:
The Fourth Turning is Here
If this is the case, we all need to be paying attention.
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