12-22-2016, 02:14 PM
One can produce a 4T ending later using the S&H generation mechanism. You just draw the generations a bit later. It depends on the timing of the 2T, which creates the Boomers. The current 1964-1984 dates are consistent with a hero, artist and prophet generations born around 1908-1927, 1928-1942, 1943-1961, which are consistent with the S&H GI, Silent and Boom generations. The GIs start later, but this is because S&H skip a Civil War generation and so need to start the GI’s earlier. I note they start the 3T turning in 1908, so the Lost/GI split would normally be later than 1900/01.
But the 1964-1984 2T implies the current 4T should run around 2002-2024. This can accommodate a 4T end in 2025 just fine, but not one in 2035. But suppose you define the 2T, again politically, as the period from 1968-1992 when Republicans controlled the presidency most of the time. This gives a 4T predicted of 2006-2032. A 4T over 2008-2035 is perfectly consistent with his.
The generations that create a 2T over 1969-1992 would be consistent with a 4T running over 1933-1953, covering the period when Democrats held the White House, which again makes sense. This scheme moves the Silents, Boom, and Xer gens up to 1931-1947, 1948-1969, 1970-1986, and it all works using the S&H generational mechanism. But it puts Donald Trump and Eric into the Silent gen, and all those late sixties Xers into the Boom, and makes Xers out of the early Millies. Now if you just consider generations as a tool, and not as an actual identity, then this is fine. But S&H spend a lot of ink trying to show that generational membership is an identity, that is, we can know what generation we are in before we are called to play our role in history.
But the 1964-1984 2T implies the current 4T should run around 2002-2024. This can accommodate a 4T end in 2025 just fine, but not one in 2035. But suppose you define the 2T, again politically, as the period from 1968-1992 when Republicans controlled the presidency most of the time. This gives a 4T predicted of 2006-2032. A 4T over 2008-2035 is perfectly consistent with his.
The generations that create a 2T over 1969-1992 would be consistent with a 4T running over 1933-1953, covering the period when Democrats held the White House, which again makes sense. This scheme moves the Silents, Boom, and Xer gens up to 1931-1947, 1948-1969, 1970-1986, and it all works using the S&H generational mechanism. But it puts Donald Trump and Eric into the Silent gen, and all those late sixties Xers into the Boom, and makes Xers out of the early Millies. Now if you just consider generations as a tool, and not as an actual identity, then this is fine. But S&H spend a lot of ink trying to show that generational membership is an identity, that is, we can know what generation we are in before we are called to play our role in history.