{"id":144834,"date":"2025-01-09T22:47:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T20:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=144834"},"modified":"2025-01-09T22:47:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T20:47:42","slug":"the-strauss-howe-generational-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=144834","title":{"rendered":"The Strauss-Howe Generational Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"922\" height=\"904\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/saeculum_history_inner_circle.png?resize=922%2C904&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-144835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/saeculum_history_inner_circle.png?resize=922%2C904&amp;ssl=1 922w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/saeculum_history_inner_circle.png?resize=768%2C753&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/saeculum_history_inner_circle.png?resize=920%2C902&amp;ssl=1 920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/saeculum_history_inner_circle.png?w=957&amp;ssl=1 957w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 922px) 100vw, 922px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"865\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fourth_turning_wwiii_2025.png?resize=695%2C865&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-144837\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>They say history tends to repeat <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/brewminate.com\/young-and-old-examining-the-strauss-howe-historiographical-generations-hypothesis\/\"><strong>itself.<\/strong> S<\/a>trauss and Howe laid the groundwork for their theory in their book\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3XafB3G\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Generations: The History of America\u2019s Future, 1584 to 2069<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(1991), which discusses the\u00a0history of the United States\u00a0as a series of generational biographies going back to 1584.<sup>[1]<\/sup>\u00a0In their book\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3yFYQUT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Fourth Turning<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(1997), the authors expanded the theory to focus on a fourfold cycle of generational types and recurring mood eras<sup>[2]<\/sup>\u00a0to describe the history of the United States, including the\u00a0Thirteen Colonies\u00a0and their British antecedents. However, the authors have also examined generational trends elsewhere in the world and described similar cycles in several developed countries. Fascinating to say the least <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click here to view the chart<a href=\"https:\/\/hawramani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/strauss_howe.png\"> larger<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say history tends to repeat itself. Strauss and Howe laid the groundwork for their theory in their book\u00a0Generations: The History of America\u2019s Future, 1584 to 2069\u00a0(1991), which discusses the\u00a0history of the United States\u00a0as a series of generational biographies going back to 1584.[1]\u00a0In their book\u00a0The Fourth Turning\u00a0(1997), the authors expanded the theory to focus on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[548,1095,1934,755,1247],"class_list":["post-144834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-other-stuff","tag-charts","tag-global","tag-history","tag-politics","tag-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131669,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=131669","url_meta":{"origin":144834,"position":0},"title":"\u201cSingularity (after Stephen Hawking)\u201d by Marie Howe","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"29\/04\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/411239105 by Maria Popova","rel":"","context":"In &quot;videos&quot;","block_context":{"text":"videos","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?cat=193"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":146578,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=146578","url_meta":{"origin":144834,"position":1},"title":"Johann Strauss II &#8211; Voices of Spring Waltz","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"04\/05\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qqm9jaM5UPA?si=rEWTGxf7PJUKMLY-","rel":"","context":"In &quot;sounds&quot;","block_context":{"text":"sounds","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?cat=5"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/johann-strauss-ii-voices-of-spri.jpg?fit=480%2C360&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":138492,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=138492","url_meta":{"origin":144834,"position":2},"title":"generational marketing","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"08\/06\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Tell me why I should work with you! via","rel":"","context":"In &quot;all other stuff&quot;","block_context":{"text":"all other stuff","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210607.younger.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210607.younger.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210607.younger.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210607.younger.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210607.younger.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":43826,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=43826","url_meta":{"origin":144834,"position":3},"title":"There is No End","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"20\/01\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/66135077 A visual essay through the words of the poet Franz Wright and the eyes of a woman, unravelling the generational patterns of conditioning that create the unmanaged expectations we take into life and love. 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