Chapter 10, A Fourth Turning Prophecy Summary and Analysis

Chapter 10 brings together the analysis of the previous nine chapters to make a general prophecy about the future. First, around the year 2005 (again, the book was published in 1997), the catalyst event of the Fourth Turning will occur. The authors suggest possibility like a major financial crisis that leads to secession, a major terrorist attack, fighting over the national debt, the outbreak of a flu or some other virus, and tensions within the old Soviet Union and Iran as options. They deny that any specific prophecy will occur but that something on this order will occur and that it will trigger a series of events like a chain reaction that will lead into a new social order. The pre-crisis years will see increasing distrust of the government and perhaps a massive devaluation in the...