03-25-2017, 03:54 PM
(03-25-2017, 03:48 PM)Mikebert Wrote:(02-27-2017, 06:46 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Sorokin ... identified a cycle of 80 to 100 years that ping-pongs between spiritual and materialistic mindsets, roughly corresponding to the awakening and crisis turnings. For Howe and Strauss, the second and fourth turnings - spiritual awakening and secular crisis - form the key moments in the larger cycle of cultural trends.
Did you read Sorokin's massive work? I've used his method for measuring sociopolitical instability in my first paper, but never engaged with his thesis.
No. I simply cut and pasted.
I got only to the academic level in which one gets a feel for the academic and some conception of waht to trust and what not to trust.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.