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Bratmike here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.

The philosopher, Lewis Mumford, said that every generation revolts against its fathers and

makes friends with its grandfathers, and that has certainly been the case in my own life.

I love my dad, but I grew up really idolizing my grandfather in the whole world where two

generations he was a part of.

In fact, my admiration for that generation was a huge part of what inspired and continues

to inspire the Art of Manliness.

The mission of AOM has been to bring back some of the best values of our grandparent

generation that got lost at the end of the 20th century.

According to the historian and demographer Neil Howe, there's a reason millennials tend

to identify more with the greatest generation than with baby boomers.

In fact, there's a whole pattern that generations in history itself cycles through again and

again, much like the changing of the seasons.

In the 1990s, Howe, along with his co-author William Strauss published two books, Generations

and the Fourth Turning, which set out a bold and fascinating theory.

That history can be broken down into four phases and four generational archetypes that

repeat themselves over and over every 80 years.

What are the characteristics of that generational archetype you belong to?

What historical phase are we in now?

And what does the Strauss Howe theory predict is likely to happen to the geopolitical

and economic landscape in the next decade?

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