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Go Fourth: Crucial Knowledge

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As I mentioned in a post yesterday, I was delighted to see The Fourth Turning is Here book, which I purchased and read over the course of just a couple of days (which is no mean feat, since this sucker is nearly 500 pages long).

I truly enjoyed the book, although I’d say easily 70-80% of the book is there for fleshing out the concepts. The entire thesis of this book, as well as its prediction about what is to come, could be condensed down to probably about thirty pages or so. This is not to say that the bulk of the book is fluff; it’s simply not essential to the points being made.

I’m certainly not going to try to boil it down further into a single post, but I’d at least like to share a variety of thoughts and impressions drawn from my reading. I’m going to be completely lazy and just bang this out as a series of individual, disjointed paragraphs. I’ve also interspersed a variety of graphics that are related to the content.

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Book Report

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I have written about one of my favorite books, The Fourth Turning, many times here on Slope. I was surprised to learn that an updated volume, The Fourth Turning is Here, came out last year.

I bought it immediately, of course, because the original book is over a quarter century old, and I certainly wanted to read the latest thoughts from Mr. Neil Howe. He has moved the goalposts a bit, but I think that’s understandable.

In the 1997 book, his conjecture was that the Fourth Turning would be wrapping up around 2025, but now he thinks this period of crisis probably has a decade to go, or thereabouts.

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