The Obama interregnum relieved some anxiety for a while, but mostly this century has felt like I’m riding a train whose tracks are headed off a cliff. So I’ve been bingeing Strauss and Howe’s work on historical cycles. Howe says we’re in a crisis cycle, which’ll get worse before it gets better.
What’s different after finishing this book is that I’m resigned to the destruction that’s building. We need to power through it. America has made its greatest progress after vanquishing bad guys. Maybe we can have a soft crisis, à la the 17th century’s Glorious Revolution. But if not, OK, I guess.
