Originally Posted by Odin

IMO S&H should wait until it is obvious that the regeneracy is here. They should also add a chapter on the saeculum in other parts of the world

Ditto that.

Originally Posted by Bob Butler 54

Right now, though, when talking to most people about the current political situation, I don't try to push the complexities of the theory. I'll throw out an airy assertion that every four score and seven years or so, the United States has to reinvent itself. There comes a new birth of freedom. I don't try to prove that it must be so, but just try to get people to acknowledge that it might be so, that from time to time significant change is possible and necessary.

Ooh, it is so complex and yet, so simple. I like discussions with peers and adults, but it is impossible for me to say what I actually believe. If an "important" issue comes up, I've learned to say it doesn't matter. However, in school, I'm often forced to write about a certain current event and I always wind up lying.

Originally Posted by Bob Butler 54

...I'll throw out an airy assertion that every four score and seven years or so, the United States has to reinvent itself. There comes a new birth of freedom...

Very nice, Mr. Butler. Maybe S&H mentioned this somewhere in their books, but I had not previously associated Lincoln's opening line of the Gettysburg Address with an unintended measure of a saeculum. (I'm probably the last to see this, though.)