The Fall
Strauss and Howe eloquently depicted the social effects of population implosion on the arts generation in “the Fourth Turning”. I’ve studied business cycles and have lead corporate teams during periods of downturn. In marketing, this is known as “decline”. In Kondratieff Wave economics this downward trend is called “the fall”. Everything has a lifecycle, even governments. So, we tend to want to call a total change in governing powers, a collapse of the seat of authority,