Report Card for Donald Trump

[SomeGuy]

(02-03-2017, 04:25 PM)Mikebert Wrote:

(02-03-2017, 04:15 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: What purpose do you think this serves?

The purpose is we talk about the theory, but I don't think most folks, including you, have a grasp on it.  The S&H theory is endogenous, not exogenous.  That is the generations create themselves, they do not rely on some other external phenomenon creating the conditions under which generations then operate.

Your assertion that social moments are evenly spaced is an example of invoking an outside force: given the existence of social moments we can define those generations who take part in then in youth or in leadership as dominant.

But if you do that, you are simply moving the goalposts.  What causes the evenly-spaced social moments in the first place?

Again, already addressed.  The character of the generations is determined by their ages during social moments, and their character in turn spurs their reactions to events, generating social moments.  Moralistic elders, pragmatic managers, and conformist youth cause society to react dramatically to problem deferred by the previous period, enabling drastic institutional and political change.  The society is exhausted and then falls into relative political stasis (not so much no forward movement as no movement side to side, a static trajectory if you will), which in turn becomes confining and spurs a spiritual crisis as the rising, indulged generation questions whether other directions are possible.  Conciliating and indecisive leaders, idealistic and divided managers, and an atomized youth lead to a sort of societal drift, which causes problems to build up which are then addressed in the next 4T, and so the cycle repeats.

This is very basic S & H.  Children don't grow up exactly like their parents, and so they behave differently as they grow up, and the aggregate of that difference in behavior leads to different periods, causing society to oscillate back and forth between active and passive, spiritual and secular states.

Again, what made you think your understanding of this was somehow unique?