Pendulum: How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future
Pendulum: How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future (2012-10-02) Hardcoverby Roy H. Williams (Author)splendid USED CONDITIONPolitics, manners, humor, sexuality, wealth, even our definitions of success are periodically renegotiated based on the latest 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 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 boo