The subtitle of The Fourth Turning is "An American Prophecy," and of course both Strauss and Howe are Boomers, the current Prophet generation. Part of their Prophecy is that a great and deadly War (Crisis) is coming soon, One That Will Remake the World. (And which, go figure, will be followed by a new Golden Age (High), which is what any good Prophecy should also have.)
Unlike other prophets, they do let us see behind the curtain to know how it is done. That we all can understand the future and the past better, now, is their greater gift. It's still amusing - and reassuring - that their theory of history predicts that, as Boomers/Prophets, their vision of the future would be apocalyptic - that is, they are exactly the people who would see history in the way that they do.
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