The Fourth Turning

I just read a very interesting book called "The Fourth Turning." It is about time and it's cycles and seasons and how generations are formed by those seasons. Basically, time is broken down into units called saeculums that are about the length of a long human life (80-100 years). Within a saeculum there a four seasons, just as there are four seasons to the year and four seasons to a human life. Your generation is shaped and defined by the season that it was born and came of age in. Your generations reactions to the seasons are what shape future seasons. It's incredibly accurate. The authors trace back history hundreds of years to show the cycles.

The book was written in 1997 and the predictions that they made for the early 21st century are dead-on so far. We are in the first part of the fourth season of the saeculum. This season is called the "winter" or "crisis" season. Past fourth turnings have included the Great Depression and World War II, The Civil War, the American Revolution, the Glorious Revolution, The Spanish Armada, and the War of the Roses.

This book will give some great perspective on current events and how they may unfold.