Finishing off 2017 by looking at people getting angry,  why they might be angry, and what part it may have in the Fourth Turning.

 

This appears to be the original tweet concerning the party in 2040 (it was reused often):

https://twitter.com/ktrestifo/status/940824076842651649

What the heck, it’s short:

me, getting ready for a dinner party in 2040, sipping champagne while putting on my cartier diamond earrings in front of my vanity: what’d you learn at school today, honey?

my future child: in history we talked about 2017. do you remember it?

me: drops my crystalline wineglass

 

A pre-Election opinion piece that points out that, yep, people were angry Already.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/calm-down-well-be-fine-no-matter-who-wins/2016/11/04/e5ca3c32-a2d3-11e6-a44d-cc2898cfab06_story.html?utm_term=.0c6c029ed55b

 

The text of the Infamy or Pearl Harbor speech

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pearl_Harbor_speech

 

Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond is about how technology, cities, and geographic luck enabled Western Europeans to overcome other cultures around the world. The example from that book is at the start of chapter 14, From Egalitarianism to Kleptocracy, which goes into the change from (generally democratic) bands & tribes to centrally-led chiefdoms and larger organizations.

 

Some specific polls on the less-religious American populace

http://www.pewforum.org/2015/11/03/u-s-public-becoming-less-religious/

 

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