#fourthturning

Kharg Island looks like a decisive oil target. It isn’t. It’s a trap. Modern energy systems don’t break where they’re struck—they adapt, redistribute stress, and expand the battlefield. The real fight isn’t over oil infrastructure. It’s over risk, flow, and control.

Kharg Island looks like a decisive oil target. It isn’t. It’s a trap. Modern energy systems don’t break where they’re struck—they adapt, redistribute stress, and expand the battlefield. The real fight isn’t over oil infrastructure. It’s over risk, flow, and control.

There are no elements of the Fourth Turning cult that aren’t at-best delusional and at worst outright propaganda aimed at demoralizing the one human civilization that ever truly broke away from 6000 years of brutally stoopid feudalism.

But The Fourth Turning cult is part of a final phase, toxic frenzy. It has so many former Goldwater conservatives - now fervent or uncomfortable Trumpists - salivating for a coming Grand Crisis. Worse, many are eagerly helping to bring one about!

Can you tell the difference between the sky at sunrise and at sunset? The red glow of a dying world order is all too easy to mistake for the promise of a new dawn. One man who believes he is witnessing a glorious sunrise is Steve Bannon, the White House Chief Strategist.

Nothing in Strauss and Howe’s ideas *favored* a right-wing outcome to our current crisis. I thought eight years ago that Barack Obama was going to revive the New Deal, but he chose not to do so. He very consciously declined to mobilize the anger in the country to set one group of Americans against another—a feature of previous fourth turnings. The Tea Party and the Republican Party filled the vacuum, and the Trump campaign piggy-backed on what they had done.

What we are witnessing now is the birth of a new political order, and the more frantic a handful of media elites become, the more powerful that new political order becomes itself.