Is It "Just Me," or Are We STILL in a 3T?

[David Horn]

(02-12-2022, 11:40 PM)JasonBlack Wrote: The main indicators that we are in a 4th turning are
1) Elevated sense of conscious fear rather than distraction/celebrity bread and circuses (MeToo marked a nice metaphorical death thereof, but it was on the decline before that).
2) Everyone is highly political because you have to be, and keeping up with current events feels more like self-preservation that partisanism.
3) Massive extensions of government power, combined with people's greater willingness to comply therewith.
4) Almost everyone knows that things are going to get much worse before they get better, with many fretting about the end of society as we know it.

I don't see anything even vaguely similar to your item 3.  Government reach has been declining for decades due primarily to a well thought-out campaign against anything that impedes the full exercise of private power.  In short, the government has been neutered, and nothing gets resolved as long as that continues.

The 1950s may have been a bit stifling, but things actually worked.  That started to decline in the mid-60s and went into full retreat in the early 80s.  Now, we're stuck with a vulture model, where the haves get to take and we get to cheer them on.