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“History is seasonal, and winter is coming.”
― The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
― The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
“One reason why the cycle of archetypes recurs is that each youth generation tries to correct or compensate for what it perceives as the excesses of the midlife generation in power. For example, Boomers (a Prophet generation, whose strength is individualism, culture and values) raised Millennial children (a Hero generation, whose strength is in collective civic action). Archetypes do not create archetypes like themselves, they create opposing archetypes. Your generation isn’t like the generation that shaped you, but it has much in common with the generation that shaped the generation that shaped you.”
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“Yet the great weakness of linear time is that it obliterates time's recurrence and thus cuts people off from the eternal—whether in nature, in each other, or in ourselves. When we deem our social destiny entirely self-directed and our personal lives self-made, we lose any sense of participating in a collective myth larger than ourselves. We cannot ritually join with those who come before or after us.”
― The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
― The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
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