As a follow-up to our latest newsletter on the Fourth Turning, I want to highlight this article I just read on Neil Howe’s blog.
Read the full story to get all the details and data. Here are his bullet-point observations/predictions:
Most Americans now believe they are living through very bad times — a period of decline for [...]
This is part 3 of a 3-part article.
Read Part 1 Here
Read Part 2 Here
But the biggest shift of all may be that postmodernists and independents have a new faith: “We must save ourselves, at least as far as this world is concerned.”
On one extreme, this means becoming truly self-made, like an Ayn Rand hero, building [...]
I just read another great article from the Harvard Business Review blog entitled “Let’s Call it the Humanity Sector,” by Dan Pallotta, a “leading expert on innovation in the nonprofit sector and a pioneering social entrepreneur.”
He’s also the author of Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine their Potential.
He starts his article by taking issue with [...]
I was once jumping on the trampoline with three of my kids — eight year-old Alex, three year-old Liberty (Libby), and eleven month-old Avery — and, like I am prone to do, reflecting on ideal society.
Alex, skilled and energetic, wants to jump as high as he can and perform tricks.
Libby, unaware of her surroundings, jumps [...]
The seven major societal institutions are family, community, religion, academia, business, media, and government.
Family
The role of the family is to ensure responsible citizens, preserve society, and balance the desires of individual liberty with the demands of community responsibility.
As James C. Ure, professor at George Wythe University, has written,
“The family is the bubble in which a [...]
Seth Godin has just released a new e-book entitled “What Matters Now.”
Seth didn’t write it himself; he asked over 70 thought leaders to each contribute a page.
As Seth explains on his blog, each shares “an idea for you to think about as we head into the new year. From bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert to brilliant [...]
Alissa Walker recently published an interesting story in Fast Company entitled “An Urban Farm Teaches Millennials How to Disobey.”
The story reports:
“As a graduate student at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, Robyn Waxman became fascinated with the next generation of designers’ role when it came to protest and civil disobedience, a place designers [...]
In my studies I recently encountered the following poem by D.H. Lawrence. The poem leaped from the pages as an intense promotion of the “organic decentralization” Oliver DeMille says is vital in The Coming Aristocracy.
City Life
When I am in a great city, I know that I despair.
I know there is no hope for us, death [...]
We’re thrilled to announce the release of The Coming Aristocracy: Education and the Future of Freedom by Oliver DeMille.
Purchase the book here for $14.95 + shipping. Click here to download the introduction of the book and two hour-long recorded webinars with Oliver DeMille, which are packed with supplemental content.
The Coming Aristocracy is a book for [...]
This week we held a webinar entitled “The Economics of Influence: Using Hub Mentality™ to Increase Your Influence & Wealth.”
We recorded the webinar and you can download it for free by clicking on the following links:
Webinar Audio Recording
Webinar PowerPoint Presentation
We had issues with the recording, so the video didn’t record for some reason. You’ll [...]
