Did u know Ted is a WWII vet?
A Company, 296th Combat Engineer Battalion, earning five
battle stars while serving in the
European theatre.
Pretty cool! Who knew
There’s a reason they’re know as the greatest generation. Those men came home from some pretty horrendous stuff, jammed those demons into a closet while using them for motivation to get back to making this country greater and did a pretty sweet job at it. Then their kids (not all of them mind you) started cocking it up.
I’ve read two really good books that describe this cycle. The first is named Pendulum. The second is name The Forth Turning. Both use a historical timeline of about 3000 years to demonstrate the cycle.
Pendulum describes how Society swings between extreme individualism and extreme collectivism. Right now society is at the top of the pendulum swing which causes it to react in a way that it swings back the other way. The Fourth Turning describes the cycle of society as it transitions through four repeating cycles. Currently we are in the late fourth stage that will inexorably cause the first stage to begin again. Remarkable reads.