I will throw it out there. Since I was alive and pretty much an adult by that time, right now feels an awfully lot like the late 80s/early90s when everything seems to have gotten turned on its head. The familiarity I am speaking of I will direct that toward the current president having been an aberration (which I said a long time ago) and may be removed in the future election. The climate right now is sort of on fire a little bit. It seems many people are angry and not just seething but striking out in ALL ways as if a bridled, frustrated beast of the field trying to buck loose from chains.
Could it be everything will soon shift?
I cannot say what it may look like, but I think the most major indicator of public mood "feels" a certain way that cannot be immediately or authentically quantified.
Since the reason I come to this thread is to exact the ideas of the 4th Turning and Generations books, I am using those ideas to "see". This is something I can gauge because I was there and present at the end of the 1990s in America. There is no real explanation for it even now. It is a general mood that things are stagnant and need a cleansing.
Could this be a one presidency like Bush?
Based on the "flip-flop" patterns we make as humans (I believe is the basis of the Turning theories) we get too much of something, or not enough of something else, then we need to rotate back again. It seems TO ME clear this is what's happening. It feels like what I know of the late 1960s and 1970s (but was not "there" to make a coherent personal analysis even by memory), and feels kind of the same "mind" or "mood" as the 1990s, and now it feels that way again.
Genera outrage and panic, I think there are more of that <--- than the opposite with people being content and reasonable. We are still building toward a more huge fluctuation, but I am not sure I can say what that looks like. Perhaps just a REALLY strong version of what I have described, because I was nowhere close to existing in the last comparative Turning which was WWII and New Deal era. I cannot speak to that because I was not there to know what anyone was "feeling".
Could it be everything will soon shift?
I cannot say what it may look like, but I think the most major indicator of public mood "feels" a certain way that cannot be immediately or authentically quantified.
Since the reason I come to this thread is to exact the ideas of the 4th Turning and Generations books, I am using those ideas to "see". This is something I can gauge because I was there and present at the end of the 1990s in America. There is no real explanation for it even now. It is a general mood that things are stagnant and need a cleansing.
Could this be a one presidency like Bush?
Based on the "flip-flop" patterns we make as humans (I believe is the basis of the Turning theories) we get too much of something, or not enough of something else, then we need to rotate back again. It seems TO ME clear this is what's happening. It feels like what I know of the late 1960s and 1970s (but was not "there" to make a coherent personal analysis even by memory), and feels kind of the same "mind" or "mood" as the 1990s, and now it feels that way again.
Genera outrage and panic, I think there are more of that <--- than the opposite with people being content and reasonable. We are still building toward a more huge fluctuation, but I am not sure I can say what that looks like. Perhaps just a REALLY strong version of what I have described, because I was nowhere close to existing in the last comparative Turning which was WWII and New Deal era. I cannot speak to that because I was not there to know what anyone was "feeling".