Politics, manners, humor, sexuality, wealth, even our definitions of success are periodically renegotiated based on the new values society chooses to use as a lens to judge what is acceptable
Are these new values randomly chosen or is there a pattern?Pendulum chronicles the stuttering history of western society; that endless back-and-forth swing between one excess and another, always reminded of what we left behind.There is a pattern and it is 40 years: 2003 was a fulcrum year, as was 1963, its opposite.Pendulum explains where we have been as a society, how we got here, and where we are headed. If you would benefit from a peek into the future, you would do well to read this book.
^Roy H. Williams, Michael R. DrewPendulum : How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future by Roy H. Williams and Michael R. Drew (2012, Hardcover)ISBN 9781593157067 (revised Oct 2016)
^Williams, Roy H.; Drew, Michael R. (2014). Pendulum : How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future, Perseus Books Group. BiggerBooks. ISBN 9781593157067 (revised Dec 2023)
^Pendulum: How Past Generations Shape Our Present And Predict Our FutureIndigo. ISBN 9781593157067 (revised Sep 2018)
