The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny

by William Strauss

Where we once thought ourselves collectively strong, we now regard ourselves as individually entitled.

Optimism still attaches to self, but no longer to family or community.

Without human death, memories would never die, and unbroken habits and customs would strangle civilization.

There are two kinds of people. The ones who view death as a justified beautiful thing that's part of life, and the ones who view death as the ultimate enemy. This author belongs to the former. I'm increasingly part of the latter This is an ongoing debate in my mental spaces to be honest. Pros and cons. Although this particular way of justifying it is new.. to me at least. Interesting point of view of how death plays a role from a macro civilization societal standpoint.

“The future is only the past again, entered through another gate.”

recording history from the inside out—as people actually lived it and remembered