(02-04-2017, 11:37 AM)SomeGuy Wrote: So we're off trying to find out if I've read the book that this site is basically based on?
Ok, let's play this out. What year were you born? Your mom?
No. The question is whether you ever considered how their cycle works, as opposed to just mapping out turnings about 80-100 years apart. Past turnings are identified with the advantage of hindsight. For example the three American 4Ts are really obvious. To see going forward one needs to apply their theory, and you can't do that unless you know how it works. How does history create the generations? And then how do these generations create history? Dave Krein's paper provides insight on the latter.
So I started with a discussion of how does history create generations. S&H aren't very clear on this. Why should I have one peer personality and my younger brother (b 1965) another? Both of us were kids in the sixties and early seventies. By the time I was in high school (1973) it was winding down. When he started high school (1979) it was pretty much over although the 2T would technically continue for another 5 years. Yet we fall into different generations. It can't be due to out experiences over a two-decade phase of life, because our phases of life mostly overlap (we both married in the first half of the nineties, for example). But we do fall into different generations. The difference has to reflect experiences over a much shorter span of time than a full phase of life.
Me: March 1959 and my mom: Nov 1930 Rising adulthood is 22-43, so she exits in Nov 1973 and I enter in March 1981.