It's a Model, Not Prophecy!

[Mikebert]

(02-13-2017, 01:48 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: I don't think it has anything to do with this "modern era" being somehow faster paced than any of those other periods, just that we don't have the same perspective since we are in the middle of it.  You read a history book, you can skim over the events of several years in so many pages, and only get the highlights, those events considered to be part of the narrative by historians with the benefit of hindsight.

True, which is why I looked for marker events (e.g. sociopolitical unrest levels, spiritual event frequency, crime, alcohol consumption, critical elections) that are correlated with past turnings of the same type or correspondence with other cycles (K-cycle, leadership cycle, secular cycle) that can be empirically characterized.