fourth turning

  1. Melodi

    SOFT NEWS Question or observations by those aged 75 and above please?

    Hi Gang, Anyone is free to post on this thread, but I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about generations, fourth turning, and all that other stuff; but I have a question that is especially aimed at people at least 75 (possibly 80) years old and above that may be here and are willing to...
  2. Melodi

    CHAT Free Fourth Turning Webinar with Neil Howe starts at 10am EST 6/26/20

    I just noticed that this webinar - which is free, starts in about an hour and 10 minutes (3 pm my time) and I'm posting the link in case anyone is interested in listening. I actually can listen because the housemate had to go to work in her office 3 hours away today (normally she works from...
  3. Melodi

    OT/MISC Is Trump (or his advisor) using The Fourth Turning Books?

    I've been re-reading the Fourth Turning all week and by last night was actually asking out loud- I wonder if either Trump or one of his advisors has read or is fond of this book; perhaps even using it intentionally? Well, I just finished reading a very long-long-long article in Time Magazine...
  4. MinnesotaSmith

    POL Current events: America, Trump, and the Fourth Turning

    Links (there are LOTS of them) in original. https://www.theburningplatform.com/2016/11/19/grey-champion-assumes-command-part-one/ GREY CHAMPION ASSUMES COMMAND (PART ONE) At each of these great gates of history, eighty to a hundred years apart, a similar generational drama unfolded. Four...
  5. Safecastle

    CRISIS Neil Howe: "The Fourth Turning Has Arrived"

    Read below AND listen to the podcast interview of Neil Howe. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-23/neil-howe-fourth-turning-has-arrived In 1996, demographers William Strauss and Neil Howe published the book The Fourth Turning. This study of generational cycles ("turnings") in America...
  6. Dennis Olson

    CRISIS SOCIETAL MELTDOWN? A Must Read - The Fourth Turning - SEE POST 129

    The Fourth Turning... Every few hundred years in Western Civilization, there occurs a sharp transformation. . . Within a few short decades, society rearranges itself - its worldview; its basic values; its social and political structure; its arts; its key institutions. Fifty years later, there...
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