Has the Fourth Turning Begun?
Republican policies have already created crises that challenge our very survival as a species — will these crises be solved by Zoomers?
The pundits are mystified by Tuesday’s election outcome: they were certain a red wave was on its way.
They missed the Zoomers.
They missed the Fourth Turning.
It’s been 76 years since the Silent Generation birthed the first Boomers after World War II in 1946. That’s exactly four times nineteen years per generation (4 x 19 = 76).
From 1901 to today, we call these generations: Greatest, Silent, Boomers, Xers, Millennials, Zoomers, Alpha.
Each lasts roughly 17–20 years, before the next generation steps onto the world’s stage.
And there’s something extraordinary about every fourth generation (those bolded above).
On September 6, 1789, US Envoy to France Thomas Jefferson, who would be America’s first Secretary of State in a mere six months, sat down at his desk in Paris to write to his protégé James Madison.
Working from a mortality table published by the French scientist M. de Buffon, he proposed his take on a science of history based on the study of generations. Each…
