OVERVIEW
CULTURAL / GENERATIONAL CYCLES
The
timelines in this book are ordered based on the research presented by William
Strauss and Neil Howe in their book “The
Fourth Turning”[1] in which they establish
their thesis of cultural and generational cycles which repeat throughout
Western history.
The
cultural cycles they present are:
1) A period
of cultural STABILITY and harmony. Once this period of stability becomes “over
ripe” it becomes culturally oppressive.
2) A period
of AWAKENING through conscious, religious, economic, technologic, or political
creativity, usually seen as a reaction oppressive nature of the stable culture.
3) A period
of UNRAVELING of the stable culture in which counter-cultural elements appear
and challenge authority in a variety of ways.
4) Finally,
a CRISIS ensues in which many elements of the once stable culture are done away
with or altered.
Once
the culture is re-formed, then a period of stability would ensue and start the
process all over again.
I
have illustrated this process is illustrated in the graphic below which repeats
throughout this book.
GENERATIONAL WAVE
DIAGRAM
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