The Fourth Turning
The reward of the historian is to locate patterns that recur over time and to discover the natural rhythms of social experience. In fact, at the core of modern history lies this remarkable pattern: Over the past five centuries, Anglo-American society has entered a new era—a new turning—every two decades or so. At the start of each turning, people c... See more
William Strauss • The Fourth Turning
If you learned history in the usual linear style, you probably felt a void. Perhaps you yearned for a more personal connection with the past and future, a path through which you could attach a larger drama to your own life experience. Perhaps you yearned for a closer connection to the ancestral wisdom gained by real people who struggled to build th... See more
William Strauss • The Fourth Turning
You should try to unlearn the linear belief that America (or the entire modern world) is exempt from the seasonal cycles of nature.
William Strauss • The Fourth Turning
more about cash, sexual disease, and going it alone in an unforgiving world. Why? The young-adult Nomad is replacing the young-adult Prophet.
William Strauss • The Fourth Turning
The Fourth Turning is history's great discontinuity. It ends one epoch and begins another.
William Strauss • The Fourth Turning
apostasy, punishment, repentance, and renewal.
William Strauss • The Fourth Turning
pioneers in service of a Manifest Destiny.
William Strauss • The Fourth Turning
Persian, Judaic, Christian, and Islamic cosmologies all embraced the radically new concept of personal and historical time as a unidirectional drama.
William Strauss • The Fourth Turning
an authentic opportunity to remake man and therein put an end to history.
William Strauss • The Fourth Turning
Most important, we need to understand that our modern efforts to flatten natural and social cycles often meet with only superficial success. Sometimes, all we do is substitute one cycle for another. When we dam a river or industrialize a society, for example, we might eliminate the cycle of floods or wars; then again, we might just ensure that the ... See more