Book Review of The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe

There are three ways you can look back at history: Chaotic – “history has no path. Events follow one another randomly, and any effort to impute meaning to their whrigling succession is hopeless.” Linearism – history as progress, “the belief in indefinite scientific, economic, and political improvement”, linear time is a unique (and usually progressing) story with an absolute beginning and and absolute end.” Cyclical – repetitive, “time is endless, yet also endlessly completed and renewed, propelled by elaborate rituals resembling the modern seasonal holidays” In, The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy, Will and Neil make the claim that history is cyclical. And they provide many examples from the ancients. Season 4 Episode 5