Unravel or Crisis Era? so where are we now?

(my guesstimate: Crisis!)

http://www.fourthturning.com/

"An Unraveling cannot lead back to an Awakening, or forward to a High, without a Crisis in berween." - The Fourth Turning (1997)

"In the Unraveling, the removal of each civic layer brought demands for the removal of more layers;in the Crisis era , each new exercise of civic authority creates a perceived need for the adding of layers." TFT

"This is the critical threshold: People either coalesce as a nation and culture-or rip hopelessly and permanently apart." TFT

A Morphology of Crisis Eras (note: according to TFT authors the Unraveling phase mid/late 1990's and Crisis/catalyst event(s) would happen by 2005)

Fourth Turnings have provided great pivot points of the Anglo-American legacy. Dating back to the fifteenth century, there have been six. Each produced its own Crisis-from the similarities of the eras, a morphology can be constructed:

-A Crisis begins with a catalyst-a startling event (or sequence of events) that produces
a sudden shift in mood.
-Once catalyzed, a society achieves a regeneracy-a new counterentropy that reunifies and reenergizes civic life.
-The regenerated society propels toward a climax-a crucial moment that confirms the death of the old order and birth of the new.
-The climax culminates in a resolution-a triumphant or tragic conclusion that separates the winners from losers, resolves the big public questions, and establishes a new order.

Crisis morphology occurs over the span of one turning, which (except for the U.S. Civil War) means around fifteen to twenty-five years between the catalyst and the resolution. (The Fourth Turning)

:hi:

an "unraveling." I'll have to find my copy of that book and read it over again! Perhaps more people being aware of voting irregularities and working for paper ballots is the beginning of civic unification? I'd like to think so...

Up Shit Creek and nary a paddle in sight. That's where.

Redstone