Creating Freedom
On The Fourth Turning , and the debate, Political Upheaval, By Design I read The Fourth Turning on a recommendation by James Howard Kunstler and liked it at the time (around 2009). Now I think I might have a change of heart about it or at least some parts of it that don't travel well or have been appropriated as prophecy. In Raoul Martinez's book Creating Freedom there's a passage that I liked that is perhaps a better way to think about history, and the "direction of travel": "Beliefs reflect what we think the world is like. Values, on the other hand, reflect what we think it should be like. In the turbulence of life, we depend on our beliefs to act as a compass for our values, the signal, in any situation, the direction of travel. When they are false, they lead us astray, often preventing us from realizing our goals. People take wrong turnings, vote against their interest, buy the wrong product, picked the wrong career, marry the wrong person. With ...