Cyclical Generational Theory
I read a book a decade or so ago, published in 1997 called: The Fourth Turning An American Prophecy . The book proposed a theory for predicting the future based on cyclical repetition of the past along with the mechanism behind it. The centrist-leaning conservative authors, historian and economist Neil Howe and the late William Strauss, argue that history repeats itself in roughly 80 to 100 year cycles (about one long lifetime and called a saeculum) due to the constellation and archetype of generations that are influenced by events in the same way as their cohort generation 80 to 100 years in the past. Background on the Fourth Turning Generational Theory Per the theory, there are 4 generations influencing society at any given time (with smaller numbers very old stragglers still hanging on but not influencing society anymore and young children being born to the next generation). The archetypes used for these generations are Prophet, Nomad, Hero, Artist. Each ...
