Gonna be Teleology… from tipping to turning and ultimately decline in Stevie’s Spenglerian world-view. Bannon forgets that Spengler never saw a world of Blitzkreig or an atom-bomb. We also need to remember that the Samuel Huntington who prompted today’s neocon Islamophobia also advised carpet bombing Vietnam and extending South Africa’s Apartheid regime among others.
Spengler did warn that Hitler was not the right man to guide Europe into the preliminary stages of Caesarism; he thought that Hitler would badly mishandle the whole process.[20]
"The headline used for the piece inside the magazine asks, "Is Steve Bannon the Second Most Powerful Man in the World?" "There is only one President at a time, and Donald Trump is not one to cede authority. But in the early days at 1600 Pennsylvania, the portly and rumpled Bannon (the only male aide who dared to visit Trump’s office without a suit and tie) has the tools to become as influential as any staffer in memory,” Time's David Von Drehle writes in his cover story."
As a documentary filmmaker Bannon discussed the details of Strauss-Howe generational theory in Generation Zero. The film, according to historian David Kaiser, who was consulted for the documentary, “focused on the key aspect of their theory, the idea that every 80 years American history has been marked by a crisis, or 'fourth turning', that destroyed an old order and created a new one”.[5][6]
What the generational cycle can do, however, is explain how society is likely to respond to these events in different eras. It is the response, not the initial event, which defines an era.[50]
Michael Lind (January 26, 1997). "Generation Gaps" New York Times Review of Books. The idea that history moves in cycles tends to be viewed with suspicion by scholars. Although historians as respected as Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and David Hackett Fischer have made cases for the existence of rhythms and waves in the stream of events, cyclical theories tend to end up in the Sargasso Sea of pseudoscience, circling endlessly (what else?). The Fourth Turning is no exception.
Strauss Howe is largely a cyclical theory of reactionary rationalization using a generational model “ overly-deterministic, non-falsifiable, and unsupported by rigorous evidence” much like Bannon’s false consciousness on why Johnny simply doesn’t have the STEM chops.
“Engineering schools,” Bannon said, “are all full of people from South Asia, and East Asia. . . . They’ve come in here to take these jobs.” Meanwhile, Bannon said, American students “can’t get engineering degrees; they can’t get into these graduate schools because they are all foreign students. When they come out, they can’t get a job.” [...]
“Twenty percent of this country is immigrants. Is that not the beating heart of this problem?” he said, meaning the problem of native-born Americans being unable to find jobs and rising wages.
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Bannon’s lookism extends to the discomfort of probably having been to one too many venture capital meeting … darn that pernicious globalism and POC with money because of the same outsourcing of US production because of what… labor costs.
Bannon’s “statistic” that over two-thirds of Silicon Valley CEOs are Asian-born isn’t even close to being true, since only a small minority are. But the bigger takeaway is that Bannon was disturbed enough by this mistaken idea to bring it up. He was evidently trying to choose his words carefully, but he made it crystal clear that he was disturbed by the (fictional) idea of all these Asian-born CEOs running around in America.
Got death cult? (what Bannon's new age fascism looks like … generation gapping tools without a horoscope)
According to Spengler, the Western world is ending and we are witnessing the last season—"winter time"—of Faustian Civilization. In Spengler's depiction, Western Man is a proud but tragic figure because, while he strives and creates, he secretly knows the actual goal will never be reached.
... The generational attitudes, moods, leaders, and events that occur during recurring 80 year cycles drive the pathway of history.
Strauss & Howe have been able to document the Turnings of Anglo-American history back to 1435.
Like the seasons in a year, there have been cyclical turnings every twenty years or so for centuries. They can be described as High (Spring), Awakening (Summer), Unraveling (Fall), Crisis (Winter). Each turning is a reflection of generational interactions, moods, and attitudes. We are now seven years into a Crisis that will likely not climax until the late 2020’s.
Asians in the Library is a YouTube video posted by University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) student Alexandra Wallace in which she rants about Asian students using cell phones and talking loudly in the campus library.
ORIGIN
UCLA student Alexandra Wallace posted a rant about Asian students using cell phones in the library to YouTube on March 13th, 2011. In the video, Wallace states that she was annoyed by Asian parents washing their children’s clothes and cooking their food and expresses irritation at Asian students using their cell phones in the library while performing a racially insensitive impersonation of Asian speech. The original video has since been taken down.