Escaping the Cycle of History

Context with Brad Harris

Dec 21 2020 • 33 mins

What’s that line attributed to Mark Twain?...

"History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes."

As the authors Neil Howe and William Strauss wrote in their best-selling book The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America’s Next Rendezvous with Destiny, published in 1997, “The reward of the historian is to locate patterns that recur over time and to discover the natural rhythms of social experience.”

According to the pattern they predicted, we should currently be in the midst of a great historical crisis. Are we? If so, what happens next?

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