philly lets talk strauss howe generational theory
in it there is always talk of the "crisis" that comes before the high. the crisis before was depression and WWII. the unraveling that proceeded that was prohibition and WWI
Some people have pointed to the war on terror and the great recession as the crisis, with postmodernism and culture wars as unraveling. i think that's partially true. i think postmodernism, culture wars, political correctness, war on terror and great recession all together are the unravelling, and thus the mielinial generation is more like 1982-2015 (and tbf, we are living longer, reproducing later etc). i think we are seeing the beginnings of the actual crisis not the end. trump is a symptom not the actual problem