“Cormac considered contemporary fiction a waste of time,” said Dennis, “because contemporary writers no longer have a legitimate culture to feed their souls.”
Could this be because of the age and generation of writers writing at the time he was reading?
Compare with Neil Howe's thesis in The Fourth Turning.
As I'm delving into the Fourth Turning, I'm piqued by the idea of how their theory overlaps or jives with similar historical cyclic theories like Secular Cycles. Bigger span theories like Ian Morris ought to fit in to some of these, though Morris' data may not be granular enough to show it. Similarly one has to wonder with increasing technology, do these cycles speed up over time?
Neil Howe says the 4th turning is here. What does that mean for America in a moment of crisis?<br /> by [[Peter O'Dowd]] for [[NPR]]<br /> accessed on 2026-06-08T15:42:14