{"id":5629,"date":"2015-02-12T20:13:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T01:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5629"},"modified":"2015-02-12T20:13:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T01:13:42","slug":"fourth-turning-the-shadow-of-crisis-has-not-passed-part-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5629","title":{"rendered":"FOURTH TURNING \u2013 THE SHADOW OF CRISIS HAS NOT PASSED \u2013 PART THREE"},"content":{"rendered":"

FOURTH TURNING \u2013 THE SHADOW OF CRISIS HAS NOT PASSED \u2013 PART THREE<\/a><\/h3>\n

In\u00a0Part One<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of this article I attempted to illuminate the concept of generational theory as articulated by Strauss and Howe in\u00a0The Fourth Turning<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0 In\u00a0Part Two<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0I provided proof this Crisis is far from over, with ever increasing debt, civic decay and global disorder propelling the world towards war.<\/p>\n

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Seeds of Crisis & War<\/h2>\n

\u201cThe seasons of time offer no guarantees. For modern societies, no less than for all forms of life, transformative change is discontinuous. For what seems an eternity, history goes nowhere \u2013 and then it suddenly flings us forward across some vast chaos that defies any mortal effort to plan our way there. The Fourth Turning will try our souls \u2013 and the saecular rhythm tells us that much will depend on how we face up to that trial. The saeculum does not reveal whether the story will have a happy ending, but it does tell us how and when our choices will make a difference.\u201d \u00a0<\/em>\u2013 Strauss & Howe –<\/strong>\u00a0The Fourth Turning<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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When you accept the fact history is cyclical and continuous linear progress is not what transpires in the real world, you free yourself from the mental debilitation of normalcy bias and cognitive dissonance. Things do get worse. There are dark periods of history and they recur on a regular cycle. And we are in the midst of one of those dark periods. This Crisis will not be resolved without much pain, sacrifice, bloodshed, and ultimately war. Catastrophe is a strong possibility. The core elements of this Crisis \u2013 debt, civic decay, global disorder \u2013 are coalescing into a perfect storm which will rage for the next ten to fifteen years. The rhythms of history only provide a guidepost of timing, while the specific events and outcomes are unknowable in advance. The regeneracy of society into a cohesive, unified community, supporting the government in a collective effort to solve society\u2019s most fundamental problems seems to have been delayed. Or has it?<\/p>\n

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FOURTH TURNING \u2013 THE SHADOW OF CRISIS HAS NOT PASSED \u2013 PART THREE In\u00a0Part One\u00a0of this article I attempted to illuminate the concept of generational theory as articulated by Strauss and Howe in\u00a0The Fourth Turning.\u00a0 In\u00a0Part Two\u00a0I provided proof this Crisis is far from over, with ever increasing debt, civic decay and global disorder propelling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[181,3487,329,2500,3488,862],"class_list":["post-5629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-survival-2","tag-crisis","tag-cycles","tag-fourth-turning","tag-history","tag-history-cycles","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5630,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629\/revisions\/5630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}