The Fourth Turning is a novel, a theory, and a concept which espouses a cyclical recycle that occurs every 80 to 100 years.  While it uses America as it’s basis of war, depression, enlightenment and recovery, it is better understood within a global phenomenon.  It could relate to religious rises and collapses, just as much as it relates to societal energies.  IF one were to imagine these cycles as a ‘dream’ it would be defined as a recurring warning that will continue to recur until humanity get’s it right and resolves the conflict.

Recurring dreams continue until they are resolved.  New ones become framed in the canvas until they too are resolved and thus filed away.  Personally, I have had recurring dreams that lasted decades.  The point is – you can’t resolve the dream unless you recognize what it is telling you and act to remedy the faultline.  Such is the Fourth Turning.  An 80+ year cycle that reboots but doesn’t really resolve the causal factors.  Thus, the cycle continues as humanity fails to restore civilization to its Pure Truth.

IF we look at the history of civilizations ‘expelling jews’ –  is a cycle. From Jesus to the Fall of Rome, to the Crusaders to Popes and Kings – the record keeps playing the same song over and over.  Right now, we are in the midst of the 80-100 cycle which began with the end of WWII.  Given WWII was resolved ‘incorrectly’, we have been in the throes of a non-resolution REBOOT.  The alien has simply been given a new name – Ashkenazi Zionist. And is only a solitary tributary amongst many connecting tributaries including morality, ethics, war, religion, etc… attached to The Source.

The Source body of water feeds the tributaries creating a pathos.  When the source pathos dries up – the tributaries have nothing to feed on and are no more.  More literal pathos:  Trump is deporting and imprisoning ‘illegals’. The vast majority of which are the tributaries.  They are productive citizens, mothers, fathers, taxpayers.  For years, they were simply fearful of their illegal status and knew the minute they revealed that failure – their lives would end.

Example: ICE is arresting immigrants who are attempting to gain legal status. While gang members proliferate. What’s the point?  Trump pardons the billionaires running drugs and trafficking cartels while arresting an illegal immigrant working at Home Depot. This is a  cycle.  It is a stage set. We are approaching the end of The Third Act in a Four Act play.  The Fourth Act is ‘institutional collapse’.  Fed by our respective governments for a singular purpose – obsessive personal gain. Kings and Queens. Power. And so, the Fourth Cycle continues unabated. Because for centuries upon centuries – it hasn’t been resolved.   

While the authors of Fourth Turning, William Strauss and Neil Howe, theorize that a 21 year reprieve following a complete collapse leads to a euphoric utopia of sorts, it is built on false premises – the greatest of which is the Comparable Theory.  When your life has been degraded to a hellscape, any small action can appear as an enormous gesture. It is no different than the Stockholm Syndrome; the victim begins to defend and align with his abuser in a subconscious defense mechanism framed as ‘survival’.  It is a psychological illusion first coined by Anna Freud whose own life under her father’s psychoanalysis created a victim/abuser relationship.  Notable:  Sigmond Freud’s entire embrace of psychology was based on his theory that neuroses stemmed from his patients sexual abuse as a child. Thus, utopia is a mind game.

We have not lived in Eden since the beginning.  We cycle through civilizations, centuries and defeat only to ‘rinse-repeat’.

America is 250 years old – and in that timeline we have lived thru 17 years of peace – albeit not consecutively.  A a relatively small time period defined as when we were not at war or destroying planet earth.  The acceptance that this is Normal (Thank you Robert) is the literal illusion. Lying is normal for our governments.  Pedophilia is normal for our governments. Theft, graft, fraud, …  You get the drift.  Mike Johnson’s entire argument to vote for Republicans is based on 1 singular concept – if you don’t accept our fraud, graft, pedophilia as normal – then you will get the destruction of America by democrats.

He literally made this statement on TWITTER> I paraphrase.

William Strauss is quite an interesting person – died 2007 in McClean Va.  McClean is well known as the hub for all things – CIA et al.  For those unaware – Langley is a ‘neighborhood’ within McClean. I know this well because my father worked there after retiring from the corrupted Pentagon days – $2000 toilet era.  At one point he asked me to come there to work with him. 

Any rate, Strauss had a fabulously interesting career that traversed the mind of someone who would never turn down a challenge. Authored books on Vietnam and its aftermath. Worked in the US Department of Energy. Created a professional satirical troupe called, Capital Steps. Strauss wrote many of the songs which were performed on Broadway.  Founded a publishing company – until he was ‘stricken’ suddenly with pancreatis cancer and died at 60.  If I wasn’t a doubter, I might think, his death was purposeful.  He coined the term – Millennials.  I think I would have liked him quite a lot.

Strauss’s, partner in crime, was Neil Howe whose personality seems in complete dichotomy and discord – almost oddly so. An advisor for CSIS, Blackstone Group, and the Concord Coalition which is associated with the Heritage Foundation, Center For New Liberalism, and the Progressive Policy Institute, Howe does not appear to enjoy life – instead, he tolerates it.  

Strauss is the guy you want to have coffee with in a bookstore – Howe is the guy you dodge and pull up your menu hoping he doesn’t see you.

Somehow these two diametrically opposed minds agreed on the Fourth Turning Concept which has intrigued all sorts of comments, opinions, and skeptics.  To the Skeptics I counter – Strauss was clear this was a theory – a thought process –.  All of science is built on Theory. All Psychology is built on Theory. Facts are the illusion.  Theory is embracing critical thinking, challenging another theory, expansion of the mind.  The Fourth Turning is garnering attention right now simply because we are in the final stage of the theoretical Act 3 – and Act 4 is The Fall of Rome Again. 

Not as though this could happen in the next decade – but that this is an imminent possibility.  And perhaps, taking notice could relieve us of the terror and torture the cycle brings which is War – Hell on Earth.