A bit of meta-commentary on Strauss-Howe generational cycles. It's the Myers-Briggs of American sociology. If you take it too seriously, it becomes indistinguishable from astrology. If you wink at it out of the corner of your eye as a narrative cue/scaffolding it becomes useful
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Is it incorporated in your narrative-engine stuff? I've been wary of explicitly integrating it into my own psychohistorical speculation methods
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No, not incorporated at all. As you say, it's a useful heuristic for thinking about the zeitgeist, but as soon as you take it seriously it becomes a tautology. I have no idea of any operationalization that would falsify it.
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