Matt Meyer Over at Spectator USA Asks if We are Now in a Fourth Turning Crisis

Some of you may have heard of the concept of the “fourth turning crisis.”  This is a theory that our civilization going back to the English War of the Roses goes through an eighty year cycle of crisis and renewal.

https://spectator.us/entered-fourth-turning-crisis/

Meyer is speculating that the COVID-19 flu epidemic may be the crisis that drives our country to choose one side in the present Right/Left stalemate and move us forward and to a new consensus.  Is he right?  And is he right in thinking that it will be the right that wins out.  I guess we’ll know in six months whether things will crystallize one way or the other or we just continue to muddle along.

Vox Day Has an Interesting Link to a Theory on the Cyclical Nature of Social Change

I’m not much of a sociologist but the outline sounds plausible.  The cycle runs for 80 – 90 years and supposedly would describe the last two hundred and fifty years of American history if the author is to be believed.  Just throwing it out there if you like that sort of thing.

https://voxday.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-fourth-turning.html

https://app.hedgeye.com/insights/58414-the-fourth-turning-why-american-crisis-may-last-until-2030