12-18-2022, 01:39 PM
I wasn't around for this transition so bear with me.
The theoretical framing is that the 2nd turning is when supply of societal order is high and demand is low...when the supply flips to being low also, then we are in a 3rd turning also.
The thing is, wasn't order already low starting around the MLK assassination 1968? There were riots all over the country. If anything, the 1984-2008 stretch seems to be remembered as more orderly than "the seventies", with the lines for gas, stuck hostages, political resignations, hard-to-manage inflation etc.
Wouldn't the awakening be more the time before that, when there was actually the societal breathing room to focus on matters of the soul and spirit?
I may be missing something of the proper feel of 2Ts and 3Ts, though.
The theoretical framing is that the 2nd turning is when supply of societal order is high and demand is low...when the supply flips to being low also, then we are in a 3rd turning also.
The thing is, wasn't order already low starting around the MLK assassination 1968? There were riots all over the country. If anything, the 1984-2008 stretch seems to be remembered as more orderly than "the seventies", with the lines for gas, stuck hostages, political resignations, hard-to-manage inflation etc.
Wouldn't the awakening be more the time before that, when there was actually the societal breathing room to focus on matters of the soul and spirit?
I may be missing something of the proper feel of 2Ts and 3Ts, though.