First, my absolute best wishes to you for a full and complete recovery and relief from the misery of spinal or any pain.
This is one of those things like Kabbalah, Numerology where one can find endless meanings in predicting future events.
But why for example should the turnings begin with say 1776 and the American Revolution? Eighty years is 1856 NOT 1861. If we go four “turnings” a “ saeculum” say from 1856 we are in the midst of the Great Depression 1936. If we went from 1861, the beginning of the Civil War and went out the 80 year saeculum, we end up with the start of WWII. Yet the time between the two rather catastrophic events was a mere 5 years apart. World leaders, industrialists and thinkers of that time frame had lived through WWI - Hitler and Truman actually were in the horror of Trench Warfare, while FDR and Churchill held night Government offices.
How does Hitler a mere corporal end up as the catalyst for 65 million deaths world wide.
Exactly what “saeculum” was he leading and what “saeculum” was FDR leading?
You’re right that it is fun to consider this as a biological rhythm of the human race, but in reality it is no more valid then our fixation with “decades” as bookends for that seem to neatly encapsulate everything pop music to the color of appliances…
As the now hackneyed phrase goes, “A man never steps into the same river twice.” I would close by saying when you are in the river you are just going with the flow that a kid named Hitler living in a flop-house can change by getting denied entry to art academy and moving to Munich.
First, my absolute best wishes to you for a full and complete recovery and relief from the misery of spinal or any pain.
This is one of those things like Kabbalah, Numerology where one can find endless meanings in predicting future events.
But why for example should the turnings begin with say 1776 and the American Revolution? Eighty years is 1856 NOT 1861. If we go four “turnings” a “ saeculum” say from 1856 we are in the midst of the Great Depression 1936. If we went from 1861, the beginning of the Civil War and went out the 80 year saeculum, we end up with the start of WWII. Yet the time between the two rather catastrophic events was a mere 5 years apart. World leaders, industrialists and thinkers of that time frame had lived through WWI - Hitler and Truman actually were in the horror of Trench Warfare, while FDR and Churchill held night Government offices.
How does Hitler a mere corporal end up as the catalyst for 65 million deaths world wide.
Exactly what “saeculum” was he leading and what “saeculum” was FDR leading?
You’re right that it is fun to consider this as a biological rhythm of the human race, but in reality it is no more valid then our fixation with “decades” as bookends for that seem to neatly encapsulate everything pop music to the color of appliances…
As the now hackneyed phrase goes, “A man never steps into the same river twice.” I would close by saying when you are in the river you are just going with the flow that a kid named Hitler living in a flop-house can change by getting denied entry to art academy and moving to Munich.