Neil Howe updates the book he and William Strauss published in 1997, The Fourth Turning, which presents a cyclical theory of history, arguing that American society moves through four recurring generational archetypes—a high golden age, a principled awakening, institutional unraveling, and chaos and crisis (where we are now) — over approximately four generations or 80 to 100 years. I find The Fourth Turning is Here very helpful when trying to understand what is happening now and bracing myself for what is to come. A key takeaway for me is that we need to strengthen our own communities as we go through very turbulent times without functioning national or maybe even state government to help us. This is why local government is so important now. Each generation has a job to do in this time of crisis. The older generation, of which I am part, needs to help guide the younger generations as they work to first survive and then build from the wreckage of the past. Hopefully, if we all do our jobs, a new golden age will come out of the current destruction.