FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH
by ilene - November 11th, 2009 10:29 pm
Jim believes the worst is yet to come and paints a very frightening picture, like nothing most of us have ever seen. – Ilene
FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH
Courtesy of Jim Quinn at The Burning Platform
Stephen Stills wrote the song For What It’s Worth in 1967. It was composed three years into the Second Turning, the Consciousness Revolution. The song has come to symbolize the turbulence, mistrust, rage, paranoia, anti-war spirit, and the anti-establishment mood of the 1960’s. An Awakening era has many parallels to a Crisis era at the outset. A traumatic event or events triggers the mood alteration in the country which sets the next twenty years in motion. In 1929 the stock market crash triggered a 17 year Crisis. In 1963, the assassination of John F. Kennedy triggered a 20 year Awakening. In 2005, the housing collapse has triggered the next American Crisis which we are living through today.
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AMERICAN PIE
by ilene - October 21st, 2009 10:14 pm
Jim Quinn presents a most dire prediction of our national journey into a hellish nightmare, the worst yet to come.
Was it all foretold in this incredible song? – Ilene
Don McLean – American Pie – Live On Imus In The Morning
AMERICAN PIE
Courtesy of Jim Quinn at The Burning Platform
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I can still remember
How that music used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And maybe they’d be happy for a while
But February made me shiver
With every paper I’d deliver
Bad news on the doorstep
I couldn’t take one more step
I can’t remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
But something touched me deep inside
The day the music died
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
And them good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye
Singing this’ll be the day that I die
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Into the Fourth Turning
by ilene - October 9th, 2009 2:23 pm
This is an interview of Neil Howe, co author of The Fourth Turning, published in The Casey Report. - Ilene
Into the Fourth Turning
The Fourth Turning is a prescient book Neil Howe wrote with the late William Strauss in 1997. The work, which describes generational archetypes and the cyclical patterns created by these archetypes, has been an eye-opener to those exploring the notion that history repeats itself. At the time the book was published, the Boston Globe stated, “If Howe and Strauss are right, they will take their place among the great American prophets.” [paraphased from Casey Research]
DAVID GALLAND: Could you provide us a quick introduction to generational research?
NEIL HOWE: We think that generations move history along and prevent society from suffering too long under the excesses of any particular generation. People often assume that every new generation will be a linear extension of the last one. You know, that after Generation X comes Generation Y. They might further expect Generation Y to be like Gen X on steroids – even more willing to take risk and with even more edginess in the culture. Yet the Millennial Generation that followed Gen X is not like that at all. In fact, no generation is like the generation that immediately precedes it.
Instead, every generation turns the corner and to some extent compensates for the excesses and mistakes of the midlife generation that is in charge when they come of age. This is necessary, because if generations kept on going in the same direction as their predecessors, civilization would have gone off a cliff thousands of years ago.
So this is a necessary process, a process that is particularly important in modern nontraditional societies, where generations are free to transform institutions according to their own styles and proclivities.
In our research we have found that, in modern societies, four basic types of generations tend to recur in the same order.
DAVID: The four generational archetypes. Can you provide a sketch of each for those of our readers unfamiliar with your work?
HOWE: Absolutely.
The first is what we call the Hero archetype. Hero generations are usually protectively raised as kids. They come of age at a time of emergency or Crisis and become known as young adults for helping society resolve the Crisis, hopefully successfully. Once the Crisis is resolved, they become institutionally powerful in…
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