Digital Nomads
We’re all digital nomads now. We’ve been kicked off of the social media planets we helped make famous.
The Fourth Turning
Why Bother - Again
Everything seems to be falling apart. Hope fades eternal. Five years ago, apparently, many of us felt the same way.
Have I Mentioned 'Fourth Turning?'
About three days ago, as the news spread of our world rapidly grinding to a halt, I sent a text to some friends:
ÂĄNo Mass!
And in the streets, the children screamed The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed
A Fourth Turning Warning for America: Climax
Yesterday, I warned, again, that the center didn’t hold. There is no center in American politics.
Now Experts Are Worse Than Useless
Millennials seem to believe anything that comes from the mouth of an “expert.
2018: The beginning of the end of the Fourth Turning in America
Regardless of its ideology, that new leadership will assert public authority and demand private sacrifice.
The Resistance: Defined
The leftists who want you and me to die (at their hands?) call themselves The Resistance.
People Want You Dead
Have you ever found yourself in the midst of a riot? Even if youâve only seen riots on television, you can probably imagine how it feels to be inside one.
Predicting the Climax
We are watching The Fourth Turning unfold before our eyes. While you should read all of The Fourth Turning by generational historians William Strauss and Neil Howe, here’s one of their predictions for this point in time.
This is the Gen X election
Who would have thought that Pat Buchanan would become the spokesman for Generation X?
The Centre Cannot Hold
THE SECOND COMING --William Butler Yeats Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
It Can Happen AgainâThe Big Short Movie
âYou know how when you walk into a post office you realize there is such a difference between a government employee and other people,â said Vinny.
Why Bother?
Note: This was written in August, 2015, during the Obama administration. Lamentations about the current state of affairs pertain to an era now past.
Did You See the Crisis Coming?
Can you guess the year? ** Scottish scientists cloned a sheep named Dolly ** President Clinton signed a bill barring federal funds for human cloning ** Bank robbers in Kevlar suits staged an epic gun battle with Los Angeles police ** The English Patient wins Best Picture Oscar ** Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister of England ** Timothy McVeigh convicted of pure evil ** Titanic bounced off the iceberg and hit the box office