Okay, everyone. You all need to read

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

"The Fourth Turning Is Here" by Neil Howe.

Yes, really. Read the book. It absolutely explains what is going on these days. And why things will get worse, a whole lot worse, before they get better. I find that reading it (actually I'm re-reading it at present) makes me quite calm about what's going on.

So read it. Everyone, read it. And then get back to me.

[Eko]

1. Will do. Thanks!

[EarnestPutz]

2. Just requested it online from my local public library. It's on the shelf and will pick up Monday. Thanks.

Don't you love public libraries?

[usonian]

3. Reviews.

Wikipedia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generational_theory

Fukuyama (2023)
https://archive.is/wFJIB


IMO
Speculative and more like Kondratiev and Nostradamus, and loved by believers in "fate and destiny" over self-determination, which plays nicely into submission to our capitalist oligarch masters.




OTOH
I got a lot out of "The 500 year Delta" bssed on technological and societal changes that converged in the last century.

Description.
In the tradition of Alvin Toffler's Future Shock and John Naisbitt's Megatrends, The 500-Year Delta offers an enthralling glimpse of what businesses and individuals should expect as the five-hundred-year-old "Age of Reason" segues into the "Age of Possibility."
According to visionary futurists Jim Taylor and Watts Wacker, we stand at not one but several crossroads-marked points of discontinuity between past and present. These include:

The shift from reason-based to chaos-based logic
The splintering of social, political, and economic organization
The collapse of producer-controlled consumer markets
For a world caught in this swirling intersection of change, Jim Taylor and Watts Wacker provide tested strategies to help companies and individuals reset their course toward an unpredictable future, offering new models to accommodate the increasing chaos of everyday life.

Describing our present point of transformation as a "triple witching hour," the authors chart a future course that is at once bracing, forbidding, joyous, and ultimately redemptive.