Everyone here needs to read

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

"The Fourth Turning is Here" by Neil Howe.

Read it. I mean it, read it.

[pdxflyboy]

1. Bought it 3 weeks ago.

Haven’t started reading it yet, but I will.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Steve Bannon likes it.

Steve Bannon, former Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor to former president Donald Trump, is a prominent proponent of the theory. As a documentary filmmaker, Bannon discussed the details of Strauss–Howe generational theory in Generation Zero. According to historian David Kaiser, who was consulted for the film, Generation Zero "focused on the key aspect of their theory, the idea that every 80 years of American history has been marked by a crisis, or 'fourth turning', that destroyed an old order and created a new one". Kaiser said Bannon is "very familiar with Strauss and Howe's theory of crisis, and has been thinking about how to use it to achieve particular goals for quite a while."[29][30][31] A February 2017 article from Business Insider titled: "Steve Bannon's obsession with a dark theory of history should be worrisome", commented: "Bannon seems to be trying to bring about the 'Fourth Turning'."[32]

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Bannon cannot do anything to affect a Fourth Turning.

The cycles happen as a function of history.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Stuff can be accelerated or intensified. Nothing is predetermined by history

Of course, the great witticism (and good bit of wisdom) is that history never repeats, but it rhymes.