We Are Cooking on the Front Burner Now

About this episode

The episode discusses the current societal upheaval and the stages of conflict leading to eventual victory.

I think we should be frank with one another at this point and just acknowledge that the world is having itself an upheaval. If this is not the Fourth Turning that Howe and Strauss wrote about back in the day, it is bidding fair to approximate some kind of white water turning. As the saying goes, “first they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” But all along that process is a good deal of churn... For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/

Topics covered

• upheaval
• Fourth Turning
• churn
• societal change
• conflict
• victory

Keywords

• upheaval
• Fourth Turning
• societal change
• conflict
• victory
• churn
• Howe
• Strauss

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Canon+

Books & works: Fourth Turning

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