Pendulum
Subtitle: How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future
By: Roy H. Williams and Michael R. Drew
Contributors: Drew, Michael R.
Publisher: Vanguard Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781593157067
Subjects: Forecasting; Philosophy; Social change; Regression (Civilization); Modern Civilization; Social history; History; Social sciences; Generations; Individualism
Description: Politics, manners, humor, sexuality, wealth, even our definitions of success are periodically renegotiated based on the new values society chooses to use as a lens to judge what is acceptable. Are these new values randomly chosen or is there a pattern? Pendulum chronicles the stuttering history of Western society; that endless back-and-forth swing between one excess and another, always reminded of what we left behind. There is a pattern and it is 40 years: 2003 was a fulcrum year, as was 1963, its opposite. Pendulum explains where we have been as a society, how we got here, and where we are headed. If you would benefit from a peek into the future, you would do well to read this book.--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-229) and index.
Table of contents: title: Epiphany; title: "We" versus "me"; title: What defines a generation?; title: Duality; title: Alpha voices and the six-year transitionary window; title: The limits of predictability; title: 1923-1933 : first half of the upswing into "we"; title: 1933-1943 : the second half of the upswing, reaching the zenith of "we"; title: Three thousand years of "we" and the origin of Western society; title: 1943-1953 : the first half of the downswing of "we"; title: 1953-1963 : the second half of the downswing of "we"; title: 1963-1973 : the first half of the upswing into "me"; title: 1973-1983 : the upswing of "me" reaches its limit; title: Three thousand years of "me" : a "me" is about big dreams; title: 1983-2003 : the twenty-year downswing from "me"; title: 2003-2023 : the twenty-year upswing into "we" one more time; title: 2013-2023 : what happens next? : a discussion of experts; title: Uses of the pendulum; title: Pendulum in the Bible.