Posted on 06/07/2020 7:53:21 PM PDT by 11th_VA
A great crisis in 2008, followed by an even greater one in 2020, as an "authoritarian, severe, unyielding" leader from the baby boomer generation resists a historic moment of change afoot in the US.
Would you believe this was all predicted almost 25 years ago? In a book championed at the highest levels of the Trump administration, no less? Oh, and it was also written by the guys who invented the term "millennial."
It was all prophesied in 1997 in Neil Howe and William Strauss' "The Fourth Turning," and, depending on who you ask, it was either a breakthrough in "generational theory," a strange work of pseudo-science, or both.
In the book, Neil and Strauss — who cowrote several books on generational theory, following careers in Washington DC-area consulting circles — argue that history moves in 80-year cycles that stretch back thousands of years to the ancient Greeks. Why 80 years? Because each cycle roughly corresponds to the length of one long human life, what the Etruscans ritualized and the Romans called a "saeculum" (from which the French got the word "siecle," for "century," and we get the word "secular").
Howe and Strauss argued that each 80-year saeculum is divided into 20-year cycles, defined by each generation as it comes into adulthood. Each of the four generations that makes up a saeculum gets assigned an archetype or Tarot-like identity: prophets, nomads, heroes, and artists.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Howe and Strauss saw the climax coming around 2020 and the resolution, including a "Great Devaluation" as the economy is entirely restructured for a new set of circumstances, around 2026.
"History is seasonal, and winter is coming," they wrote, sounding like another book published in the late '90s, which would go on to become a major hit television series.
Warning that "a sudden spark will catalyze a crisis mood," Howe and Strauss said that "[r]emnants of the old social order will disintegrate. Political and economic trust will implode. Real hardship will beset the land, with severe distress that could involve questions of class, race, nation, and empire."
... Tens of thousands have marched across the country against the systemic racism and the killing of black people in America for the past week. Some of these protests have spiraled into chaos and deadly violence.
Now here's what Howe and Strauss foretold: "The nation could erupt into insurrection or civil violence, crack up geographically, or succumb to authoritarian rule."
There’s a chapter in the book, where the authors talk about the new world order. I recall them saying that everyone will be expected to get on board or else .... that’ seems like where we are at now ... get on board with BLM, or else ...
Ping
“The nation could erupt into insurrection or civil violence, crack up geographically, or succumb to authoritarian rule.”
Or not. But, of the options outlined above the most likely if it were to occur is the, “crack up geographically”.
The Red / Blue divide is growing ever greater and shows no sign of subsiding.
where do we go?
If Trump survives 2020 I do suspect that Russia and China will decide it’s “GO” time. That means World War III.
Let me guess...the election of Kenyan Barack Hussein Obama.
If that’s the model they’re going to push, I predict that the inner cities will have dead black folk stacked like cord wood. They forget that they’re clustered in the cities whereas the majority of the hinterlands have armed white folk spread all over. Those white people pushing the BLM agenda will end up Quietly buried in those hinterlands.
They meant the financial crisis - but you knew that ...
China decided it was on when they released their bioweapon via Chinese New Year celebrants in aluminum petri tubes aka jetliners.
ping
I read, maybe fifty years ago, that the Boomers, born after WW II, simply overwhelmed the Universities and colleges back in the 1960s forcing change on the US, like a lump going through a snake.
Now it is the children and grandchildren of those boomers that are beginning to shake things up, and not for the best.
New replacement lives abortion has destroyed must be replaced by new immigrants from the Turd World which are of different cultures and thoughts. Not a good thing.
Can’t We all just
Get Along?
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Interesting.
More BS “Models.”
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Put a few in
Bikinis,
Okay.
That’s nothing. I listened to Art Bell’s “Somewhere in Time” show last night. It was from 1986, and the featured guest was Major Ed Dames. His 34-year-old predictions were REALLY scary!
Bfl
It sounds like that’s near what happened in 2008.
The election of a socialist/globalist/who may not even have been legally eligible to run. The financial melt down starting in Sept. 2008. I still think most of that melt down was purposely done, to clear the path for the more liberal, more socially ambitious candidate, aka Obama.
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