Pendulum: How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future Audiobook
Pendulum: How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future Audiobook
Author:
Narrator:
- Roy H. Williams, Michael R. Drew
Publisher:
- Tantor Media
Date:
- 2012-10-15
Genres:
Duration:
- 5 h 14 min
Summary:
Politics, manners, humor, sexuality, wealth, even our definitions of achievement are regularly renegotiated predicated on the new beliefs culture chooses to make use of as a lens to judge what is acceptable.Are these new ideals randomly chosen or is there a pattern? Pendulum chronicles the stuttering background of western society; that limitless back-and-forth golf swing between one extra and another, often reminded of what we left behind.There is a pattern and it is forty years: 2003 was a fulcrum year, mainly because was 1963, its opposite.Pendulum explains where we’ve been being a society, how exactly we got here, and where we are headed. If you would reap the benefits of a peek into the future, you’ll do well to hear this book.