We are at the gate of the 4th turning, there can be little doubt about it but then, Now what?
The only certainty is that "What goes up, must come down!" and we are dreadfully close to the top of the curve. What happens in 2024 will determine our future. As much as 1776, 1861 or 1941? I don't know. But look at the uncanny rhythm of 80 years between the different crisis in America!
Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,
“Americans today are increasingly polarized, as if they constitute two separate nations.” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning
“THESE
are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine
patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country;
but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and
woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this
consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the
triumph.” – Thomas Paine – The American Crisis
Thomas
Paine wrote these words 247 years ago, in the most historic year in our
history – 1776. That was during the first American Fourth Turning. It’s
not a coincidence we are now in the midst of our fourth Crisis period
in U.S. history, as they arrive like clockwork every 80 years or so, the
length of a long human life. Paine’s American Crisis began in 1773,
ignited by the Boston Tea Party and the British reaction to this
revolutionary act of defiance. Our current Millennial Crisis was
triggered by the Federal Reserve/Wall Street/Government created
financial disaster in 2008 and subsequent outrageously desperate,
totalitarian, un-Constitutional, extreme acts designed to keep the
ruling class in power, while impoverishing and enslaving the masses in a
surveillance state techno-gulag.
The polarization and fractures
have become too deep to repair. The country, and the western world in
general, are hurtling towards a darkening abyss of civil conflict,
financial collapse, global war, societal chaos, and loss of life on a
scale grander than WW2, the Civil War, and the American Revolution
combined. Our technological advancements have outstripped our ability to
intelligently, thoughtfully, and humanly, use this power for the
benefit of future generations. The destructive deficiencies of human
nature, such as: greed, desire for power, hatred, arrogance, resentment,
and an unlimited supply of self-delusion, continue to plague our world,
as only the most power-hungry psychopaths rise to the highest levels of
government, business, religion, and finance.
The immense
technological power in the hands of egocentric, megalomaniacal,
sadistic, billionaires and their highly paid toadies, lackeys, and
apparatchiks, inserted throughout the media, government, academia,
banking, and corporations, has pushed the world to the brink of
Armageddon. We are entering the sixteenth year of this Fourth Turning.
Based on history, we can expect a climax of this Crisis in the
2030-to-2032-timeframe. The path to that climax is guaranteed to be
violent and unforgiving.
Neil Howe, in his new book – The Fourth Turning Is Here –
tries to decipher the likely path of the remainder of this Fourth
Turning. Having read the original Fourth Turning, his joint project with
William Strauss (who died in 2007), in 2004, I was curious to read
Howe’s update on their generational theory of history. I met Howe for
lunch in 2012 during the Occupy Wall Street protests and he correctly
assessed that movement as a meaningless left-wing attempt to push their
communist like agenda.
The first book, written in 1997, showed no
favor towards the right or left. It was a no-nonsense assessment of
economic facts and historical precedents. There were no political
agendas, which I now attribute to Strauss’ influence, because Howe
certainly lets his political views creep into his writings. This isn’t
surprising, as his consulting business is dependent upon Wall Street
banks and mega-corporations. He owes his living to the establishment;
therefore he won’t shit where he eats.
Howe’s current left leaning
political views seep into his current tome. He quotes Zelensky as some
sort of patriotic leader, while portraying Putin as a thug, without
giving any context regarding the 2014 CIA initiated overthrow of a
democratically elected Ukraine president. He bought the covid scamdemic
hook, line, and sinker, with no skepticism about the coordinated
lockdowns and false narratives about masks, social distancing, and
vaccines that never worked, but continue to kill. He believes the
climate change bullshit narrative.
His tone regarding Trump is
clearly negative and he believes the 2020 election was perfectly
legitimate. He expounds about the January 6 “armed” insurrection,
without one word about the FBI, Pelosi, and the Washington establishment
planning, coordinating, and exacerbating the fake “insurrection”. His
brain-dead accusations of violence by Trump supporters, while completely
ignoring the murder and mayhem created by the BLM and ANTIFA
terrorists, clearly reveals his allegiances.
Be
that as it may, there is no need to throw the baby out with the
bathwater. His acumen regarding possible scenarios and outcomes are well
thought out. Howe makes some very interesting predictions regarding the
remainder of this Fourth Turning,
providing some very dark possibilities, along with some more unlikely
optimistic outcomes. His research reveals Americans think the American
dream is no longer attainable, civil discord will destroy our democratic
institutions, and our global standing is in decline. All three fears
are legitimate and coming to fruition as we speak. Howe captures the
current situation in this passage:
“In the middle
of a Crisis era, the social mood has reached an unstable balance of
hope, fear, and dizzying uncertainty. Americans are like a compressed
spring at the point of maximum potential energy. Internally secure yet
externally threatened, they are ready for propulsive public action.” – Neil Howe – The Fourth Turning Is Here
Events
beyond their control are leading them towards their rendezvous with
destiny and the speed has begun to accelerate, with 2024 slated to be a
historic date in history, on par with 1776, 1861, and 1941. The exact
events which will make 2024 historic are obscured by a dense fog of
uncertainty, but we can make some educated guesses based upon our
current economic circumstances, Biden’s open border purposeful invasion,
upcoming elections wrought with fraud, ongoing treasonous governmental
and judicial operations, and deepening global conflicts already
underway.
Of
the three possible paths laid out by Howe, the most likely appears to
be the animosity between factions eventually leads to armed conflict
within the country. Political dominance by one party is highly unlikely,
with the country rallying around the flag against an external enemy. It
is more likely our many external foes will take advantage of our
internal conflict to further weaken our global hegemony. All paths lead
to war at this point.
I sense the delusional masses, still
entranced by their electronic gadgets, unending access to debt, NFL
fantasy leagues, and oblivious to the lessons of history, are
frantically trying to fend off reality by shopping, eating out, partying
at bars, and pretending all is well. Critically assessing their true
situation is too painful for these snowflakes and gender bending
enthusiasts. Their virtue signaling wokeness is about to meet the brutal
reality of a violent Fourth Turning climax.
“And
however much these paths may seem to differ from one another, they all
move toward the same destination. They all push the nation toward a
violent struggle requiring maximum mobilization. They all culminate in
the Ekpyrosis, which will bring the era into a decisive consolidation,
climax, and resolution.” – Neil Howe – The Fourth Turning Is Here
The
drivers of this Fourth Turning, as documented in 1997, continue to be
debt, civic decay, and global disorder. They have propelled this Crisis
since the outset in 2008 and are accelerating towards an explosive
collision in 2024. The national debt at the outset of this Fourth
Turning was $10 trillion. It had taken 219 years to accumulate $10
trillion of debt, with the majority amassed during this century. It has
taken just fifteen years to pile an additional $24 trillion of debt on
the backs of Americans and future generations, if there are future
generations.
This doesn’t even take into account the $200 trillion
of unfunded welfare and pension obligations tallied up by your
government leaders. At the same time, the Federal Reserve increased
their balance sheet from $900 billion to $9 trillion. With the rapid
rise of interest rates in the last year, if banks were required to mark
their assets to market, as they did prior to 2009, the entire banking
industry, including the Too Big To Fail Wall Street behemoths, would be
insolvent, along with the Federal Reserve. Does this seem sustainable to
you?
Luckily
for our teetering empire of debt, delusions, and deceptions, they can
change the rules whenever it suits their purposes to extend and pretend
until it all “suddenly” collapses, like a vaxxed soccer player on the
pitch. Of course, the U.S. is not alone in being burdened with unpayable
debt and an unsustainable financial system. China and the EU countries
are also insolvent and issuing debt to service their existing debt.
The
only major global power without a large debt problem is Russia, with a
debt to GDP ratio below 30%, while the U.S.- 120%, EU – 90%, Japan –
220%, and China – 80% have accumulated perilous levels of debt and still
growing. These debt levels and the domestic implications of
unsustainable economies will lead shamelessly corrupt politicians and
even dictators like Xi to provoke foreign conflict in order to distract
their populations from their dire economic circumstances. A wag the dog
type false flag is just around the corner.
An
man-made banker created economic disaster ignited this powder keg of
debt in 2008, and the “solutions” rolled out by the ruling elites since
have been designed to extend, pretend, and bend the minds of the masses,
while fostering the perpetual pillaging campaign by the billionaire
oligarchs who really run this world. The plebs have been destroyed by
the relentless inflation purposefully created by Powell and his fellow
central banker puppets of the Deep State, while the lords of finance have reaped billions in ill-gotten riches.
The
“Haves”, who control the financial markets, media, and politicians, are
ecstatic with the current paradigm, as the stock market hits new highs
every day, while average Americans go deeper into debt to keep up with
the Joneses, pay the rent, and put some food on the table. The U.S. is
nothing more than a sophisticated technological looting operation at
this point, as we await the Great Taking to be initiated by the
oligarchs as their final solution.
The Great Taking is
David Rogers Webb’s warning to those not on the inside about the coming
seizure of all your assets (stocks, bonds, savings) by your own
government in the name of some new contrived national emergency. You
will sacrifice your life savings for the good of the country (aka Deep State).
At this point it’s just a matter of which comes first, The Taking,
Global war, or Civil chaos caused by the ongoing election fraud. They
are all coming and will merge into a category 5 hurricane of hell for
the nation and the world.
The
Deep State continues its complete control over who gets
“elected”/selected in this country, as they use the captured judicial
system as a cudgel to crush the rule of law and our Constitutional
rights. The Soros selected District Attorneys, Mayors, Governors,
Judges, Secretaries of States, and various other low-level captured
bureaucrats, are doing what they were selected to do – destroy the
country’s social fabric and create a chaotic disintegration of our
community norms.
A populace propagandized into a woke communist
ideology and prodded into a buy now, pay later mentality, is unwilling
or unable to accept that LATER has arrived. They will pay, one way or
another. Multiple bubbles in stocks, bonds and real estate are all
poised to pop, with the slightest provocation from a global and/or
domestic blunder. We have now positioned our naval forces in the highly
dangerous waters in the Middle East. Militarily supporting Israel and
Ukraine has done wonders for our GDP, but it seems we are running out of
ammo to defend our own country, as the invasion of our southern border
accelerates. We are currently provoking armed conflict in Yemen, Syria,
Gaza, Iraq, Ukraine, and Russia.
All it will take is one lucky
missile or unexpected hyper-sonic missile and our vaunted navy will see a
vessel or two go to the bottom of the Red Sea. Then all hell will break
loose. The rhetoric, threats and accusations of atrocities are ramping
up, along with armed conflict across the Middle East. With the raging
religious hatreds and centuries old struggles for land and power coming
to a head, it will just take one of these psychopaths to ignite a global
conflict. Meanwhile, China is biding its time for when they make their
ultimate move on Taiwan. That would really roll a grenade into the
party.
Financial
markets have ignored the worsening global conflict thus far, but what
happens when Americans start dying in large numbers? If the markets are
at all time highs based upon expectations of a strong thriving economy
in 2024, why is the Fed signaling multiple interest rate cuts in 2024,
regional banks are desperately clinging to the Fed’s emergency bailout
fund, commercial real estate is collapsing, housing has peaked, gold is
hitting all-time highs, credit card debt is at all-time highs, layoffs
are increasing, and the number of working age citizens is in free fall
due to vaxx deaths and disabilities?
But buy stocks because the
Wall Street shysters and their media mouthpieces tell you it’s the best
time to buy. The only question at this point is what additional grain of
sand will cause the sand pile to collapse. Will it be a foreign war, or
will it be a civil war within our borders or something no one has even
considered? I know most people dismiss the possibility of civil war,
believing there aren’t enough people willing to risk their lives for a
just cause. Neil Howe seems to think it is probable.
“Roughly
half of all Americans think a civil war is likely. And a growing number
of social scientists agree that the United States now fits the
checklist profile of a country at risk. Trust in the national government
is in steep decline. Check. Respect for democratic institutions is
weakening. Check. A heavily armed population has polarized into two
evenly divided partisan factions. Check. Each faction embodies a
distinctive ethnic, cultural, and urban-versus-rural identity. Each
wants its country to become something the other detests. And each fears
the prospect of the other taking power. Check, check, and check.” – Neil Howe – The Fourth Turning Is Here
Virtually
no one believes civil war is possible, just as no one expected a civil
war in 1860, as the presidential election approached. Truthfully, the
civil war has already begun, but only those on the left, in conjunction
with the FBI, CIA, Big Media, and other governmental agencies, are
aggressively fighting. They are vigorously at war against the American
people by rigging elections, arresting opposition leaders, and
discarding the U.S. Constitution.
The good guys have thus far been
too civil. But the simmering anger of heavily armed rural, red state
Americans is close to boiling over. All the signs are there, awaiting a
triggering event for this undeclared war to engulf the nation. At this
point a number of possible triggering events are possible.
If David Webb is correct and those in power initiate the Great Taking,
the level of violence in reaction would be unprecedented in U.S.
history. Maybe that is their plan. Biden and his handlers could use this
event to declare a national emergency, suspending the presidential
election because they were going to lose, and instituting martial law.
Their attempt to lockdown the country and use the military against
civilians would surely result in massive bloodshed, as local animosities
would result in assassinations, wholesale slaughter of those considered
disloyal to whichever side controls the high ground in that community.
Previously petty disputes would suddenly become lethal disputes.
Even
if the presidential election is held in November, I don’t believe
either side will accept the outcome. We know the Democrats and their
Deep State co-conspirators will cheat, rig and once again try to steal
the election. If they fail, they will unleash their BLM, ANTIFA
terrorist arm into the streets to create chaos as an excuse to not hand
over power to Trump.
With
multiple states now attempting to unlawfully keep Trump off the ballot
in their states, the animosity between the right and left grows ever
deeper. The imprisonment of Trump or more radical attempts to steal the
2024 election will be met with violence from the here-to-for persevering
right. Mixing this toxic domestic atmosphere with a deepening global
chasm is a recipe for global disaster.
As we have seen throughout
history, the egos of psychopaths at the helm of nations often lead them
to act irrationally and/or emotionally when it comes to committing their
people to war. While the U.S. has further weakened its global hegemony
with its disastrous forays into Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Ukraine;
Russia and China have gotten stronger and more mutually committed to
creating their own new world order. The USD as the dominant global
currency is reaching its endpoint, marking the end of empire. Now Israel
will further deplete U.S. resources and global stature with their war
to wipe out Palestine. Once the dominoes begin to fall in a game of
global warfare, all bets are off regarding possible outcomes. Neil
Howe’s worst-case scenario is certainly not out of the question.
“At
worst, should at least one desperate country resort to WMDs, the
outcome of a great-power war could prove to be even more devastating
than that of a civil war. The toll could be almost unimaginable – with
multiple cities destroyed, many millions killed, and many tens of
millions displaced – all perhaps triggered by some ill-fated combination
of the wrong leader making the wrong choice at the wrong time.” – Neil Howe – The Fourth Turning Is Here
All
scenarios for 2024 seem depressing and dark, but the odds still favor
just continuing to muddle through as we have done through the first
fifteen years of this Fourth Turning. I gave up trying to make specific
predictions within a specific time frame years ago. It’s a fool’s errand
as there are too many variables in the world to correctly predict which
ones will drive the course of events within a one year time frame.
What I do know is that pessimism
about the future continues to deepen, paranoia strengthens, trust
declines, anger grows, and the arrogance of those running the show has
reached epic levels. We’ve been subjected to three years of propaganda about how the Great Reset will
fundamentally transform our world, where we will own nothing and be
happy. It seems this fits perfectly with David Webb’s Great Taking
theory of how we will ultimately own nothing.
There does
seem to be a common thread running through everything happening in the
last three years and appears to be on deck for 2024 and beyond. It all revolves around this broad Great Reset concept
pushed by Schwab, Gates, Soros, and the rest of the Davos elite. The
entire Covid plandemic was engineered to introduce authoritarian
measures and instruct the masses to obey their masters.
The
vaccine is now clearly revealed to be a depopulation weapon, killing
off some suddenly; others through myocarditis, turbo cancers, and
strokes; babies through miscarriages; and future generations through
reduced fertility. And most still believe our overlords rolled these
jabs out to save them. Trump is still crowing about his big, beautiful
vaccines. He’s either a fool or a charlatan.
The climate change
scam is hastening, as the war on farmers, meat, and fossil fuels is
waged relentlessly by unelected bureaucrats and captured media
mouthpieces. The EV scam is collapsing rapidly, as people with common
sense see through it all. The Great Replacement of white people with
third world savages is unabetted, with the Biden Administration ushering
them across the southern border, giving them phones and money, flying
them to cities across the country, and paying for them to stay at
upscale hotels.
This is not incompetence, but treason. They have
already used their predictive programming/brainwashing to prepare the
masses for civil war and a massive cyber-attack. Your government will
protect you, as long as you sacrifice your remaining liberties and
rights. All that is left is the initiation of the Great Taking. The “emergency” will occur on a weekend and by Monday morning your assets will be gone.
This
is their master plan, but we will have a say on whether it is ever
successfully implemented. I wonder if these Davos psychopaths absconded
with The Great Reset moniker from Strauss & Howe, as they used it to describe Fourth Turnings back in 1997.
“A Fourth Turning is a great reset.” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning
A
Fourth Turning great reset may be a surprise to Schwab and his
totalitarian acolytes inserted in governments across the world. They are
in control. They are running this shitshow. They are the establishment.
They are reaping the benefits. They are suppressing dissent and the
truth. They are the existing social order that traditionally gets swept
away during a Fourth Turning. 2024 may mark the beginning of the end for the Davos crowd and their iron grip on our spiraling society of chaos.
The
future course of history could be radically altered by actions taken by
supposedly influential characters in this movie, but also by courageous
deeds performed by average Americans who will sacrifice themselves to
ensure future generations have a chance to live in a nation devoid of a
psychopathic elitist ruling class.
It seems like a long shot at
this point, but giving up is not an option for those of us who still
love this country. The four possible outcomes for this Crisis, laid out
by Strauss & Howe in 1997, are as valid today as ever, and
disturbingly close at hand. We will all have to do our part if we are to
have any chance of producing a positive outcome to this Crisis. Happy
New Year.
This
Fourth Turning could mark the end of man. It could be an omnicidal
Armageddon, destroying everything, leaving nothing. If mankind ever
extinguishes itself, this will probably happen when its dominant
civilization triggers a Fourth Turning that ends horribly. For this
Fourth Turning to put an end to all this would require an extremely
unlikely blend of social disaster, human malevolence, technological
perfection and bad luck.
The Fourth Turning
could mark the end of modernity. The Western saecular rhythm – which
began in the mid-fifteenth century with the Renaissance – could come to
an abrupt terminus. The seventh modern saeculum would be the last. This
too could come from total war, terrible but not final. There could be a
complete collapse of science, culture, politics, and society. Such a
dire result would probably happen only when a dominant nation (like
today’s America) lets a Fourth Turning ekpyrosis engulf the planet. But
this outcome is well within the reach of foreseeable technology and
malevolence.
The Fourth Turning could spare
modernity but mark the end of our nation. It could close the book on the
political constitution, popular culture, and moral standing that the
word America has come to signify. The nation has
endured for three saecula; Rome lasted twelve, the Soviet Union only
one. Fourth Turnings are critical thresholds for national survival. Each
of the last three American Crises produced moments of extreme danger:
In the Revolution, the very birth of the republic hung by a thread in
more than one battle. In the Civil War, the union barely survived a
four-year slaughter that in its own time was regarded as the most lethal
war in history. In World War II, the nation destroyed an enemy of
democracy that for a time was winning; had the enemy won, America might
have itself been destroyed. In all likelihood, the next Crisis will
present the nation with a threat and a consequence on a similar scale.
Or
the Fourth Turning could simply mark the end of the Millennial
Saeculum. Mankind, modernity, and America would all persevere.
Afterward, there would be a new mood, a new High, and a new saeculum.
America would be reborn. But, reborn, it would not be the same.
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