We are in the winter season of the current cycle. Neil Howe predicted this in his book "The Fourth Turning."
In effect, he writes that every 80 years is a cycle that concludes in massive change, usually through war. Everything we had been under changes and we end up in a completely new world structure.
Think of what happened around 80 years ago: WWII. Around 80 years before that: American Civil War. Around 80 years before that: Age of Revolutions in Europe and the United States.
This 80 year cycle is broken into 4 phases or "Tournings" as Howe writes it. It goes "High", then "Awakening", followed by "Unravelling" and finally "Crisis." Each one of these tournings also have a corresponding generation attached to them. So, Boomers are from "High", Gen X is from "Awakening", Millennials are from "Unravelling" and Gen Z is from "Crisis."
I'm sure you've been noticing that things are ramping up. In 2008 we were hit by a recession, the likes of which we haven't seen in years. In 2016, we saw Trump and Brexit. In 2020, we saw the biggest global pandemic, not seen since 1919, followed by what many are saying will be another recession.
You're not going crazy, the world is indeed spiralling into a crisis.
Is the book worth reading? I bought it a while back but could never get into it.
Jeremiah Baker
I don't completely buy into the cyclical history theory myself, but you have to admit there is something to the idea that after a major world event, people start behaving in a certain way and then after the population long removed from that event, it starts behaving in another manner.
Human lives go like this as well. We're born, mature, start looking for work and start a family and so on...
It's not predictive, but surely we can learn something from the similarities.
checked and dabbing on linear experiencing retards
Juan Howard
>Millennials are the "Hero" of the upcoking Crisis I have trouble believing that but you never know.
Zachary Baker
There’s a lot more millennials out there working regular jobs than you think. The retard portion of every slice of the population, millennials included, is always massively over represented in the (((media)))
Daniel Thompson
Well, it makes sense if you have a major war, Boomers will probably start it because they are in control of shit. Gen X will probably be hitting 60 by that point and therefore too old to fight or deal with it, which leaves Millennials as the only obvious generation that'll have to step up in their 40's, right?
Yes, we've all heard the shitting on millennials, but in reality, we got dealt a shitty hand. 2008 was a recession, meaning the millennials that just got out of college/university in their 20's were immediately smoked by an economic event, not seen since 1929. Then, we got hit by a pandemic in our 30's and we're probably looking at another recession to come.
Call us lazy and I'm sure many are, but I remember how hopeless I was in my 20's. Things are working a lot better for me now, but who knows what the future holds...
Also, it's always Boomers shitting on millennials because they had it much easier. They are essentially pissed off at millennials because of how easy they had it compared to us and so when we point that out, they call us lazy. It's like, "What? We got hit by a recession and a pandemic in our prime working years."
