Pendulum: How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our FutureVanguard Press, 2012 M10 2 - 288 pages Politics, manners, humor, sexuality, wealth, even our definitions of success are periodically renegotiated based on the new values society chooses
Pendulum chronicles the stuttering history of western society; that endless back-and-forth swing between one excess and another, always reminded of what we left behind. There is a pattern and it is 40 years: 2003 was a fulcrum year, as was 1963, its opposite. Pendulum explains where we have been as a society, how we got here, and where we are headed. If you would benefit from a peek into the future, |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
How to Read This Book | 4 |
Epiphany | 7 |
We versus Me | 15 |
What Defines a Generation? | 27 |
Duality | 35 |
Alpha Voices and the SixYear Transitionary Window | 39 |
The Limits of Predictability | 45 |
19731983 The Upswing of Me Reaches Its Limit | 127 |
Three Thousand Years of Me A Me Is About Big Dreams | 137 |
19832003 The TwentyYear Downswing from Me | 151 |
20032023 The TwentyYear Upswing into We One More Time | 165 |
20132023 What Happens Next? A Discussion of Experts | 179 |
Uses of the Pendulum | 209 |
Pendulum in the Bible | 217 |
Acknowledgments | 222 |
19231933 First Half of the Upswing into We | 49 |
19331943 The Second Half of the Upswing Reaching the Zenith of We | 63 |
Three Thousand Years of We and the Origin of Western Society | 73 |
19431953 The First Half of the Downswing of We | 91 |
19531963 The Second Half of the Downswing of We | 97 |
19631973 The First Half of the Upswing into Me | 113 |
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