What is your evidence for the 23 following statements?
2016-2020
During Every Fourth Turning there is a Regeneracy.
Regeneracy – An action plan that unifies and energizes civic life.
- A drawing together into whatever definition of community is available at the time.
- People stop tolerating the weakening of institutions, the splintering of the culture, and the individualizing of daily behavior.
- Spiritual curiosity abates, manners traditionalize, and the culture is harnessed as propaganda for the purpose of overtly reinforcing good conduct.
- One to three years after the initial catalyst, people begin deputizing government to enforce it.
- Collective action is seen as vital to solving the societies most fundamental problems.
- With the civic ethos now capable of producing civic deeds, a new dynamic of threat and response takes hold.
- Instead of downplaying problems, leaders start exaggerating them.
- Instead of deferring solutions, they accelerate them. Instead of tolerating diversity, they demand consensus.
- Instead of coaxing people with promises of minimal sacrifice, they summon them with warnings of maximal sacrifice.
- Leaders energize every available institution and direct them toward community survival.”
- Society propels itself on a trajectory that nobody had foreseen.
- Societal problems that, in the Unraveling, posed insuperable dilemmas now appear to have simple if demanding solutions.
- A new resolve about urgent public goals crowds out qualms about questionable public means.
- Crisis eras are studded with faulty leadership and inept management. Surprisingly, the public often follows even when mistakes are made.
- Individuals are expected to comply with new standards of virtue.
- Family order strengthens, and personal violence and substance abuse decline.
- Those who persist in free-wheeling self-orientated behavior now face implacable public stigma, even punishment.
- Winner-take-all arrangements give way to new mechanisms of social sharing.
- Questions about who does what are settled on grounds of survival, not fairness.
- A renewed social division of labor by age / sex.
- Elders are expected to step aside for the young, women for men. When danger looms, children are expected to be protected before parents, mothers before fathers.
- All Social arrangements are evaluated anew; pre-Crisis promises and expectations count for little.
- In the crisis, the pace of daily life will seem to slow down just as political and social change accelerates. (this vs. a past time of fast-paced personal lives against a background of public gridlock)
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