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The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
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4 Reddit comments about The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny:

u/chuckknucka · 3 pointsr/atheism

Perhaps only temporarily. Check out The Fourth Turning

u/aelendel · 2 pointsr/collapse

It seems really quite doable if our society was to buckle down and just set our mind to it; I have seen one estimate that a WWII style buildout and dedication would get the problem solved in about a decade (assuming that spectres likes EROEI don't sink it).

It seems to me that we are currently in a standard of living anchoring trap where no one wants to take the pain to fix the problem; and that the long term road to prosperity means short term pain.

Too much of the American psyche is about keeping up with the Jones, and not enough about long term investment in society. Hopefully some of sociologists that study generations are right and the time will be right within the decade to really buckle down and look at solving our problems - watch for percentage of baby boomers in congress. I don't think it's a coincidence that the massive drop in congress's effectiveness happened to coinicide with baby boomers become a majority there.

u/Moneybags99 · 2 pointsr/collapse

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001RKFU4I/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Yes. This follows the roughly 80-100 year pattern Strauss and Howe lay out in the Fourth Turning. Highly recommend the book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generational_theory

u/MoreLuckyThanGood · 1 pointr/collapse

It comes from a book called The Fourth Turning.