Seems like a retelling of the fourth turning, don't see the book mentioned here:<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Turning-Here-Seasons-History-ebook/dp/B0BHTNV8HN?ref_=ast_author_dp_rw&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.EvBbcaSud-OFl809wMoU964JHHuXukfsiSZ9pafEmO_6A0uyMg6M8PX9YiwzpRn3IW7jxBkdtulZsmkQGn598p063kI2FjIJVLfEE2jNbf6bFP-mwLF1nIM3W03it6oP3coBGqQmA7M4iB_nMJRH-2NfO8y_9x8H6yJC-vFacufnZ9dTqf_N6QTkFfET058Y.0dJBIT52RkuiIMx2Y3E4rX6wn0P8jIGeSDRgtFsyioA&dib_tag=AUTHOR" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Turning-Here-Seasons-History-e...</a><p>These ways of finding patterns, are always interesting, but also usually flawed by like all of the things left out.<p>"This juncture (civil war) is the best one to drive home the point about why political passions run so high at these historic moments: They mark fundamental system changes, and the stakes are extremely high, particularly for those on the side of the system that has to die."<p>We're there political passions in the 1945's? Seems like there we're greater political passions and divisions in the 1960's an 1970's, halfway through his theory.<p>There seems to be this idea that what, maybe AI is the next technological explosion 80 years after the end of ww2, but I'd argue we just got out of a technological explosion of the computer age/the internet.<p>My flawed cycles theory is: I'd cut all these theories in half. I sort of theorize maybe a 40 year cycle. bottom-up civil rights action, (20's,60's). Top-down backlash and economic instability (30's70's) economic deregulation and push (40's? , 80's) and then optimisim (50's/90's).<p>In this model, I think we're headed into the 70's (backlash and economic instability)