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Pendulum

How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future

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Pendulum

By: Michael R. Drew, Roy H. Williams
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Politics, manners, humor, sexuality, wealth, even our definitions of success are periodically renegotiated based on the new values society chooses to use as a lens to judge what is acceptable.

Are these new values randomly chosen or is there a pattern? Pendulum chronicles the stuttering history of western society; that endless back-and-forth swing between one excess and another, always reminded of what we left behind.

There is a pattern and it is forty years: 2003 was a fulcrum year, as was 1963, its opposite.

Pendulum explains where we have been as a society, how we got here, and where we are headed. If you would benefit from a peek into the future, you would do well to listen to this book.

Download the accompanying reference guide.©2012 Roy H. Williams & Michael R. Drew (P)2012 Tantor Future Studies Social Sciences

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"Pendulum offers fascinating insights into the surprises and revelations of shifting social trends throughout history. Roy H. Williams and Michael Drew answer the age-old question: What makes us tick?" (Harvey Mackay, author of Swim with the Sharks without Being Eaten Alive)

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This audio book is extremely relevant today. Especially if your in business or marketing. It was eye opening for me to recognize the pattern of “we” vs “me” and how it applies to business and the context of the 80 year cycle from “4th turning”. Highly recommend!

Eye opening! Brilliant pattern recognition! We and Me!

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Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Enjoying it a second time, taking notes and doing my own research.

Thought Provoking Read

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Had a hunch that there was something like this going. After listening to this book it has clerified these cycles! There is invaluable information and examples here. I'm going to go buy the hard copy to keep and refer to!

Eye Opening!!

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Content is interesting but the performance is over the top. It's as if a top 10 radio announcer is reading the book to you. Plus there are two other choices that randomly pop in and it breaks the flow.

Read by a radio announcer

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It lay out his thesis, but if you want a better explanation I would read/listen to the fourth turning. That book explains and gives more relevance to what has happened and what is going on in todays world

Decent book, but ..

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As we wander through these interesting times this theory gives us all a lot to factor in and consider. I found it very beneficial.

An excellent theory to consider.

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It hasn't been updated to show that they were right. It be amazing to go into we swing while we are in it

2023 we zenith - hang on it's going to be a bumpy ride

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Worth the read, thinking outside the box on this one. Great new social understanding why history repeats itself

What great insights

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Very interesting ideas and perspectives. I’m not completely sold on it, but the supporting information is impressive.

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I heard about this book on Glenn Beck's show and he had the authors on for an interview. It is fascinating to see the cycles a society goes through and maybe some warning signs will appear to make the extremes not so extreme.

I highly recommend this book

Fascinating book

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