Title:
Pendulum : how past generations shape our present and predict our future
Author:
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Publication Date:
2012
Publication Information:
New York : Vanguard Press, c2012.
Physical Description:
ix, 253 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781593157067
Abstract:
Politics, manners, humor, sexuality, wealth, even our definitions of success are periodically renegotiated based on the new values society chooses to use as a lens to judge what is acceptable. Are these new values randomly chosen or is there a pattern? 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, you would do well to read this book.--Publisher description.
Contents:
Epiphany -- "We" versus "Me" -- What defines a generation? -- Duality -- Alpha voices and the six-year transitionary window -- The limits of predictability -- 1923-1933 : First half of the upswing into "We" -- 1933-1943 : The second half of the upswing, reaching the zenith of "We" -- Three thousand years of "We" and the origin of Western society -- 1943-1953 : The first half of the downswing of "We" -- 1953-1963 : The second half of the downswing of "We" -- 1963-1973 : The first half of the upswing into "Me" -- 1973-1983 : The upswing of "Me" reaches its limit -- Three thousand years of "Me" : a "Me" is about big dreams -- 1983-2003 : The twenty-year downswing from "Me" -- 2003-2023 : The twenty-year upswing into "We" one more time -- 2013-2023 : what happens next? A discussion of experts -- Uses of the pendulum -- Pendulum in the Bible.
Language:
English
