what I thought about "the fourth turning"

Saturday morning I sat down with my yogurt and opened the book to where I'd left off reading the day before.  I turned a page and saw yet another table showing the interaction between the four types of historical events and the four kinds of human personalities, and I thought, "Screw this noise."  I'm not going to spend any more of my valuable time plowing through this book that endlessly repeats itself.  The upshot is: history is cyclical, taking about 100 years to complete one turning. We're headed for a crisis, which will affect and be affected by each of the currently living generations.

Good luck, everybody.  Let's promise each other to remake the world in a good way.

too tired

I had to take back the Earth book.  It's funny, but I got too busy.  I liked the DK paintings book, but obviously it's not a comprehensive look at art throughout history.  And there is some stupid art in the world.

I'm still working on "The Fourth Turning."  I've gotten to a point where it doesn't all read like a foreign language, and it is an interesting topic, but it's sort of repetitive.

thoughts on "the fourth turning" as of page 28

Most of the time I think I'm a pretty smart person, until, say, I start talking about math with John's brother David who is into that really scary math where the numbers no longer behave predictably.  Then I feel dumb. I had a class in college called "Goedel, Escher, Bach," about the book of the same name, and I had to drop it on the second day because I was hopelessly out of my depth.  I felt dumb then, too. 

And I have felt dumb ever since I started reading "The Fourth Turning."  It reads like a textbook, and the authors are citing all these historical events that I've either forgotten or never learned about, and it is ROUGH GOING.