Sure. I will assume (since you didn't say) that you know nothing of it, or perhaps very little about the concept. In 1997, two historians, Howe and Strauss, published a book called "The Fourth Turning" based on their in-depth study of history going back about 500 years. It's not a book I would casually recommend to most people, as it is full of data, charts, graphs, and tables that most people won't take time nor interest in studying.

But the bottom line is this: That human history is NOT linear but rather cyclical. History repeats itself in 80- to 100-year cycles that they called "seculorums." And each 80-100 year seculorum is divided into four turnings of roughly 20-25 years each. Each turning has its own distinct character. Again, it's complicated to go into in this short explanation, but you could sum it up as "Hard times create hard men; hard men create good times; good times create soft men; and soft men create hard times...that's the simplest way to put it.

The book (1997, remember) predicted that in the years 2005 to 2025, plus or minus a year, would be a Fourth Turning, characterized by chaos, systems falling apart, the world order being upset, and a time of dejection and possible violence. The previous fourth turning was the WWI-depression-WWII era...and before that was the American Civil War....and before that was the American Revolutionary War... and backward into history 500 years of cycles.

I think we are VERY the end of this current Fourth Turning, perhaps one more year, plus or minus, and great changes and events are about to happen. Then again, it could happen next week, I don't know. NONE of us know when it will happen, history moves at its own pace and doesn't collaborate with me about things.

The authors also predicted, as has happened in previous fourth turnings, that a "grey champion" would arise to lead us out of this age and into the First Turning that lies ahead, a time of prosperity and good will and optimism. I believe that "grey champion" is Donald Trump, but I could be wrong about that.

So that is the most succinct description I can give you of The Fourth Turning. If you have a technical mind and like to wade through mountains of data, the book is available on Amazon, AND the authors are coming out with a new book that should be available soon.