Fourth Turning Archetypes PROPHET, NOMAD, HERO & ARTIST historical record from the Civil War through the Great Depression to the approaching Millennial Big Bang.
I end with a new word, at least new to me. A friend called it to my attention. It speaks of the moment we’re in. It is “kakistocracy,” from the Greek. It means government by the worst persons, by the least qualified or most unprincipled.
Civil War Archetypes
| PROPHET | NOMAD | HERO | ARTIST | |
| Civil War | Era of Good Feelings (1794–1822) |
Transcendental Awakening (1822–1844)Grant 1822 |
Mexican War & Sectionalism (1844–1860)Lincoln 1843 |
Civil War (1860–1865) |
| PROPHET | NOMAD | HERO | ARTIST | |
| Great Power Archetypes | Reconstruction & Gilded Age (1865–1886)Stalin 1878 Hitler 1889 Mao 1893 Franco 1892 Mussolini 1883 |
Third Great Awakening (1886–1908) |
World War I & Prohibition (1908–1929)JFK 1917 Reagan 1911 Carter 1924 Nixon 1913 LBJ 1908 |
Great Depression & World War II (1929–1946)Bernie 1941 Dylan 1941 Greenspan 1926 Thatcher 1925 MLK 1929 |
| PROPHET | NOMAD | HERO | ARTIST | |
| Millennial Big Bang Archetypes | American High (1946–1964)George ‘W’ 1946Hillary 1947 Bill Clinton 1946 Trump 1946 Putin 1952 Xi Jinping 1953 Merkel 1954 |
Consciousness Revolution (1964–1984)Michelle O 1964Obama 1961 |
Long Boom & Culture Wars (1984–2008)Zuckerberg 1984Priscilla Z 1985 McKayla 1992 Tamara 1995 |
Global Financial Crisis (2008–2029?)Maxima Chan 2015 |