Bannon believes -- The Fourth Turning

[OxQQme]

>"WASHINGTON ― In 2009, the historian David Kaiser, then a professor at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, got a call from a guy named Steve Bannon.

Bannon wanted to interview Kaiser for a documentary he was making based on the work of the generational theorists William Strauss and Neil Howe. Kaiser, an expert on Strauss and Howe, didn’t know Bannon from Adam, but he agreed to participate. He went to the Washington headquarters of the conservative activist group Citizens United, where Bannon was then based, for a chat.

Kaiser was impressed by how much Bannon knew about Strauss and Howe, who argued that American history operates in four-stage cycles that move from major crisis to awakening to major crisis. These crises are called “Fourth Turnings” — and Bannon believed the U.S. had entered one on Sept. 18, 2008, when Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke went to Capitol Hill to ask for a bailout of the international banking system."<

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-bannon-apocalypse_us_5898f02ee4b040613138a951

[ymetca]

1. Personally, I prefer Timothy Leary's 8 Circuit Model

as outlined in his book The Game of Life. Much more fun!

[Squinch]

2. This is like the guy in Stephen King's "The Dead Zone," only this is real life.

Bannon is completely batshit and shouldn't even be on the streets without a keeper, much less in the oval office.

[TexasProgresive]

3. I studied a theory in the past for individuals that is similar.

If I remember correctly it is the process by which a person becomes more conscious. At the beginning of each cycle the person is in a stable state where everything appears to be just perfect. But things are happening that will shatter that perfection into chaos. This is a learning phase for the individual as they cope with the turmoil in life and slowly integrate what they have learned thus become more conscious. This cycle repeats throughout life until the elder is filled with wisdom or having refused is just a crotchety old person. Dementia of course tends to stop the process.

So the crisis we are in, and we certainly are is an opportunity for growth or towards death. And no one should every think Evil Steve is stupid, he like Rove is very smart and bent.