Pendulum: How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future

Pendulum: How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future

<div><p>Politics, manners, humor, sexuality, wealth, even our definitions of success are periodically renegotiated based on the new values society chooses<BR> to use as a lens to judge what is acceptable.</p><p><BR> Are these new values randomly chosen or is there a pattern?</p><p><I>Pendulum </I>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.</p><p>There is a pattern and it is 40 years: 2003 was a fulcrum year, as was 1963, its opposite.</p><p><I>Pendulum </I>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,<BR> you would do well to read this book.<BR><br />  </p></div>