Episode 48: "Save Democracy" Mania Part 1 - The Fourth Turning

You'd have to be living in a bank vault not to catch all the chatter lately about the need to "save democracy". Where did this bumper sticker come from? Here is Part 1...after Donald Trump became president, Steve Bannon's fascination with The Fourth Turning put the book under a microscope. It was never called a "threat to democracy" directly...but that doesn't mean conversations about it then, didn't augur the conversations going on now.
"Political Upheaval by Design", NPR On Point, Boston WBUR affiliate, Apr 11 2017 www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/04/...
"Bannon's Views Can be Traced to a Book that Warns, 'Winter is Coming'", Jeremy Peters, The New York Times, Apr 8 2017 www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/us...
"The Outsider as Insider: Steve Bannon, Fourth Turnings, and the Neo-Fascist Threat", www.academia.edu www.academia.edu/38989953/_Th...
"The Coming Depression: Imagination in Politics Old and New", joelowndes.org, Apr 10 2020 www.joelowndes.org/post/the-c...

[@cshelley5658]

Hope you're OK!
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We're so used to the word democracy as the normal. These rule of the crowd from Athens that failed then- 2283 years before the founding of the United States, when Jefferson finds some history books
An 'elite' when 55% of white men could read by read we mean basic large print pamphlets at best.
Just imagine saying to a Virginia farmer, you want to start a Roman Republic back then!
There was one elementary school house for every 100 families, who taught The Bible in English, a century out of date.
when Latin was the entrance requirement for university that could begin at 14 years old but usually consisted of I believe 10 students, and 9 graduates in all of Massachusetts. Graduating in 1642.
It's interesting that the democracy of knowledge, the export of the College system to the masses broke America.

[@DaveGarber1975]

It sometimes takes a while for new ideas to become commonly accepted. Like Einstein's theory of relativity, or J Robin Warren's belief that bacteria (not stress) cause ulcers. Sometimes it may take a long time for the evidence to build up before it changes the orthodoxy---like the idea that there were interactions between the "Old World" and the "New World" before Christopher Columbus. I'm eager for S&H's theory to be further substantiated and refined.

[@generationreport]

That's what I'm endeavoring to do. Building off their ideas will have to come from non-mainstream voices...that much I know for sure.
One thing I intend to discuss in a future episode: generations may be about to experience a sharp decline in public use in the media and (especially) by the social sciences. Again, preview of things to come.

[@ideafood4U]

Given the events of January 6, democracy is at risk, regardless of what people said about the 4th turning.

[@ricardodsavant2965]

I heard that even the Navy Seals were terrified.