CHAPTER ONE
Epiphany
1. “Information Superhighway,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_super_highway.
2. William Strauss and Neil Howe, Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069 (New York: Morrow, 1991).
CHAPTER TWO
“We” versus “Me”
1. David Brooks, “It’s Not About You,” The New York Times, May 30, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/opinion/31brooks.html.
CHAPTER THREE
What Defines a Generation?
1. Catherine Colbert, “Marketing to Millennials: Companies Most Admired by the Generation That’s Bigger Than the Boomers,” Bizmology, March 29, 2011, http://bizmology.hoovers.com/2011/03/29marketing-to-millennials-companies-most-admired-by-the-generation-thats-bigger-than-the-boomers/.
2. Edward F. Edinger, Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche (Boston: Shambhala, 1992).
3. Ibid., 37.
CHAPTER FOUR
Duality
1. “Foundation Series,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series.
Alpha Voices and the Six-Year Transitionary Window
1. Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success (Boston; Little Brown and Company, 2008), 62.
CHAPTER SIX
The Limits of Predictability
1. Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (New York: Knopf, 1992).
CHAPTER SEVEN
1923–1933: First Half of the Upswing into “We”
1. “The Sun Also Rises,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_Also_Rises. Emphasis added.
2. “Albert Schweitzer > Quotes” Good Reads, http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/47146.Albert_Schweitzer.
3. Elizabeth Stevenson, Babbitts and Bohemians: From the Great War to the Great Depression (New York: Macmillan, 1967), 114.
4. Ibid., 154.
5. Kenneth Bruce, YOWSAH! YOWSAH! YOWSAH! The Roaring Twenties (Belmont, CA: Star Publishing Company, 1981), 79.
6. Stevenson, Babbitts and Bohemians. “Technology: The Impact of Technology on 1920s Life,” Angelfire, http://www.angelfire.com/co/pscst/tech.html.
CHAPTER EIGHT
1933–1943: The Second Half of the Upswing, Reaching the Zenith of “We”
1. Kathleen McLaughlin, “Hecklers Shout Disapproval of Hitler Defender. Berlin Savant Explains Why Books Were Burned,” New York Times, November 15, 1933.
2. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “Address of President Roosevelt by Radio, Delivered from the White House at 10 p.m., March 12, 1933,” in Amos Kiewe, FDR’s First Fireside Chat: Public Confidence and the Banking Crisis, 1–6 (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007). Emphasis added.
CHAPTER NINE
Three Thousand Years of “We” and the Origin of Western Society
1. 2 Chronicles 30:26.
2. “Human Rights,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights.
3. 2 Chronicles 36:21–23.
4. “Julius Caesar,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar.
5. “Pliny the Younger,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Younger.
6. “Emperor Honorius,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Honorius.
7. “Winchester College,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_College.
8. Ibid.
9. “Thomas Malory,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Malory.
10. “John Donne: Meditation XVII, from “Devotions upon Emergent Occasions,” 1624, Sublime to the Ridiculous, http://lazydabbler.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/john-donnemeditation-xvii-from-devotions-upon-emergent-occasions/.\11.
11. “Statue of Liberty,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty.
12. John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez (New York: Penguin, 1995).
13. Ibid., 96.
14. George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra, Act III.
1943–1953: The First Half of the Downswing of “We”
1. John Lahr, The New Yorker, May 9, 2011.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
1953–1963: The Second Half of the Downswing of “We”
1. Charles Baudelaire, “Be Drunk,” Poets.org, http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16054.
2. “Charles Baudelaire,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Baudelaire.
3. Jack Kerouac, On the Road. New York: Penguin, 1999.
4. J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1955), 52, 113, 117.
5. Ellis Amburn, Subterranean Kerouac: The Hidden Life of Jack Kerouac (New York: MacMillan, 1999), 13–14.
6. Joseph Lelyveld, New York Times, October 22, 1969.
7. “Jack Kerouac,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kerouac.
8. Karen Schoemer, Great Pretenders: My Strange Love Affair with ’50s Pop Music (New York: Free Press, 2006) 79.
9. “Albert Schweitzer Quotes,” Goodreads, http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/47146.Albert_Schweitzer.
10. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea (New York: Pantheon Books, 1991), ch. 8.
CHAPTER TWELVE
1963–1973: The First Half of the Upswing into “Me”
1. Jaron Lanier,. “Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism,” The Edge, May 29, 2006, http://edge.org/conversation/digital-maoism-the-hazards-of-the-new-online-collectivism. Emphasis added.
2. “Louie Louie,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louie_Louie.
3. Robert Stone, Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties (New York: Harper Perennial, 2007), 92.
4. “But Wait! There’s More: Book Chronicals Popeil and Ronco Commercials,” Transcript of original Vegematic TV Commercial, NPR, June 19, 2003, http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/june/ronco/.
5. John Steinbeck, Paradox and Dream (1966).
6. “Salem Witch Trials,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials.
7. Hunter S. Thomson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (New York: Vintage, 1971)
8. Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century, New York: Simon and Scheuster, 2004.
9. Hunter S. Thompson, “The ‘Hashbury’ Is the Capital of the Hippies,” Byliner, May 1967, http://byliner.com/hunter-s-thompson/stories/the-hashbury-is-the-capital-of-the-hippies.
10. Don McLean, BBC Radio 2 interview, November 4, 1993.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
1973–1983: The Upswing of “Me” Reaches Its Limit
1. “Breakfast of Champions,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_of_Champions.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Three Thousand Years of “Me”: A “Me” Is About Big Dreams
1. “Byzantium,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantium.
2. “Galerius,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galerius.
3. “Quran,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran.
4. Barron carra de Vaux, Les Penseurs de l’Islam, vol. 2 (Paris: Paul Geuthner), 213.
5. “Henry I of England,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_I_of_England.
6. John Fines, Who’s Who in the Middle Ages (New York: Stein and Day, 1971), 22.
7. “Pope Julius II,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Julius_II.
8. Ibid.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
1983–2003: The Twenty-Year Downswing from “Me”
1. “FrodeVarn’s Mazda Miata MX-5 ‘Supercharged Black & Tan’,” CarDomain, http://www.cardomain.com/ride/301314/1992-mazda-miata-mx-5.
2. William Strauss and Neil Howe, The Fourth Turning—An American Prophecy: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America’s Next Rendezvous with Destiny (New York: Broadway Books, 1997).
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
2003–2023: The Twenty-Year Upswing into “We” One More Time
1. “Gigli,” Box Office Mojo, http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=gigli.htm.
2. “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,” Box Office Mojo, http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=piratesofthecaribbean.htm.
3. “Goodreads > Carl Rogers.” GoodReads, http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1353353.Carl_Rogers.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
2013–2023: What Happens Next? A Discussion of Experts
1. Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto (New York: Vintage, 2011).
2. John Steinbeck, East of Eden (New York: Penguin, 2002), ch. 13.
3. Gary Rust, “Looking Ahead to 2004,” Southeast Missourian, December 30, 2003, http://www.semissourian.com/story/127605.html.
4. “Quotes: Human Nature (Non-Religious),” Math.UCLA.edu, http://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/quotes.html.
5. Society in Brave New World is divided into five castes that are designed to fulfill predetermined positions within the social and economic strata of the World State. Fetuses chosen to become members of the highest caste, Alpha, are allowed to develop naturally, whereas fetuses chosen to become members of the lower castes, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon are subjected to chemical interference in order to cause arrested development in intelligence and physical growth.
6. “The future is already here—it’s just not very evenly distributed.” According to Wikipedia, Gibson is reported to have first said this in an interview on Fresh Air, National Public Radio, August 31, 1993.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Uses of the Pendulum
1. Harvard Business Review (December 1966): 147–157.
CHAPTER NINETEEN
Pendulum in the Bible
1. Numbers 12:3.
2. Spencer Marsh, God, Man and Archie Bunker (New York: Bantam Books, 1976), 1.
3. Richard Exely, “Where Have All the Critical Thinkers Gone?” Richard Exely Ministries, July 2, 2009, http://www.richardexleyministries.org/index.cfm?id=7&init_blogid=39.