Posted on 07/22/2009 9:35:19 PM PDT by h20skier66
In November of 1997, my partner and co-editor of The Casey Report, Doug Casey, wrote an article titled "Foundations of Crisis," which leaned heavily on the research of Neil Howe and the late William Strauss.
Howe and Strauss have written many books on how generations determine the course of history and how they will shape America's future. Their forecasts on a wide variety of indicators have turned out to be amazingly accurate.
As eye-opening as Doug's predictions were, they brought us only to the onset of the current crisis. Consequently, we thought it both timely and important to check back with the source of much of the research he relied on. And so it was that I spent several hours talking with Neil Howe, co-author of the seminal work on generational cycles, The Fourth Turning, and, just recently, the subject of the DVD "The Winter of History." Howe is not just an historian, but also a Washington DC-based economist and demographer. While our conversation covered a great many topics, the overriding focus was on how things are likely to unfold from here.
(Excerpt) Read more at commoditynewscenter.com ...
Can’t get the original.
Excellent piece, but they stole my term, “The Greater Depression.” Unless I heard it somewhere without remembering.
parsy, who won’t sue
If the 15-25 year olds I know are any indication, we are in deeper trouble than this author posits - they have been given a left-wing world view and don’t read, so they will be moved wherever the media breezes blow them. Likewise, their attention to ephemera (sports, celebrities) instead of the world changing events around them (i.e. the freedoms they’re losing) makes me dubious...
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
My sisters’ 25 year old son was the youth coordinator for the Ron Paul presidential campaign this past election. There’s hope.
My sisters’ 25 year old son was the youth coordinator for the Ron Paul presidential campaign this past election. There’s hope.
There will be another generation of mugged liberals who will grow up looking for something new. We should make that new be the idealism and pursuit of constitutional freedom.
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