https://no01.substack.com/p/the-darkest-hours-are-before-the-f1e What is going on with the country, the economy, our way of life:?
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Below from the link:
History doesn’t move in straight lines. It breathes, it pulses, it turns through seasons as predictable as winter following autumn.
William Strauss and Neil Howe discovered this pattern in 1997. Like clockwork, every 80 years or so - a human lifetime, America faces an existential crisis that threatens to tear apart everything we thought permanent. We’ve been through this three times before, and we’re going through it again right now.
But the financial crisis was just the catalyst. What makes this a Fourth Turning isn’t the proximate cause but the comprehensive breakdown that follows.
Look around.
Every institution Americans once trusted—government, media, academia, medicine, law enforcement, intelligence agencies—has suffered catastrophic reputational collapse. When the CDC changes it's story for the fifth time, when the FBI raids a former president, when the Supreme Court’s legitimacy is openly questioned, you’re not watching normal political friction. You’re watching the complete unraveling of institutional authority.
This Fourth Turning differs fundamentally from all previous ones because of technology’s role. We’re not fighting with muskets or tanks—we’re fighting with algorithms, narratives, and digital currencies. The battlefield isn’t Gettysburg or Normandy; it’s your smartphone screen, your social media feed, your digital wallet.
Previous Fourth Turnings required mass mobilization of physical bodies. Men marched to war, women worked in factories, everyone bought war bonds. Physical presence mattered.
But our Fourth Turning is being fought in the realm of information and perception. When you can’t trust any source of information, when deepfakes make seeing no longer believing, when AI can generate unlimited propaganda at zero marginal cost, how do you even know what you’re fighting for or against? The fog of war has become the fog of everything.