Jim Quinn has written a number of essays about America’s entry into the coming Fourth Turning (Crisis).  Here is another good one, probably the best one he’s done:

http://theburningplatform.com/economy/21st-century-breakdown

He refers in this essay to the film “Generation Zero.”  Please don’t ask me more about this film than I know.  Yes, I’m interviewed in this film, and turnings and generations are used as the central organizing theme.  Yes, I’ve known the director (Steve Bannon, based in LA) for a while.  The film will be released in theaters later this spring.  Yes, it features over a dozen conservative talking heads (from Charles Krauthammer to Lou Dobbs), and has been a big hit at tea parties, the CPAC convention, and (earlier this evening) on Fox News.  No, it’s not really partisan in any party (Democrat v. Republican) sense, but it is very populist.  But yes, it is visually very striking.  Here is a trailer:

There are already many reviews of this movie.  Here is Jim Quinn’s: http://www.lewrockwell.com/quinn/quinn23.1.html.

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In 2007, PBS released a special documentary on Millennials that centered around interviews with me and Bill.  LifeCourse Associates has just been able to release the DVD  for sale on our website, and I thought you might be interested.  You can access it here.

Here’s the announcement from our site:

Announcing “Millennials,” a PBS Special Featuring Neil Howe and William Strauss

LifeCourse is pleased to announce the release of a 2007 PBS special documentary, Millennials: A Profile of the Next Great Generation, now available for sale in our bookstore.  Using the research of generational experts and bestselling authors Neil Howe and William Strauss, the documentary examines today’s rising Millennial Generation of youth.  Who are the Millennials?  What forces have shaped them as a generation?  And do they have what it takes to deal with the many political, environmental, and cultural issues that may now be reaching a crisis point?  This documentary looks for answers.  It brings the insights of Howe and Strauss to life through in-depth interviews with the authors as well as personal stories of Millennials coming of age.

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I found this NYT report (text and video) on the pop culture of Pakistan’s present-day youth generation to be very sobering. It is really worth watching and relates to the Fourth Turning (Crisis)

We see (in the headlines) the pro-western policies of the Iraq’s leadership and (lately) the pro-western military campaigns of its army. Yet one wonders, after watching this video, whether the reality may be very different under the surface. The U.S. and President Obama’s “war of necessity” against the radicalized Taliban has become, more than ever before, the object of vituperation in Pakistan—and of Pakistan’s youth in particular. Our new stepped-up predator/drone campaign is especially hated.

Keep in mind not just that Pakistan has nukes, but that it has an enormous and unstable youth population (the lower fertility that has hit Iran and much of the Arab world has not yet much affected Pakistan), that it remains very poor, with very low human development index scores, that it is riven by tribal, ethnic, and religious factionalism, and that it has a history of violent coups. Not a single former leader of Pakistan has yet died a natural death. And most of them are dead. The “anglo” culture of Pakistan’s elite does not seem to help—indeed, may even further fuel a sense of alienation. Nor, as this video demonstrates, does it matter how many die in Taliban attacks. It’s not a pretty picture.

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