Political Cycle Model for Saeculum

[David Horn]

(08-26-2019, 09:39 PM)Marc Lamb Wrote: Mr. Horn writes: "In short, you believe that the theory supports everyone's biases, but provides no real guidance.  So why bother? If, after the fact, it is what it is, it will be that without any interstitial handwringing."

In short, I left the fourthturning.com because I was convinced it, and the S&H theory it was based on, was fast becoming a "interstitial" cult.

History simply turns via the evolution of human perception's of truth. And lots of grand ideas lie upon the ash-heap of history, no matter what we'd like to believe, in the light of "self-evident truth."

You seem to be a bit too much an absolutist for me.  You expect total enlightenment or there is no value.  I'm in the 10%+ category, where some value is still value.  No, T4T doesn't answer the great questions of life and certainly doesn't predict the future. It does shine a faint light on the march of history, that clearly does follow a pattern based on forgetting the past at our peril, but it's only a tool.

We're in a major transition in history.  Where it will lead is up to us, not some predetermined totem.  I am nearly certain that you see it in vastly different terms than I do, but that does anoint either of us as a seer.