I first read The Fourth Turning about a decade ago, and have re-read it several times over the past decade.

I still chuckle when thinking about when I recommended it to Dave Pollard. he read it, and wrote a blog post about how he got so mad that he "threw it against the wall", disliking it intensely since he thought it was trying to be (in his words) "a prophecy".

He's since come around ;-)

Heavy-handed writing style, but very interesting premise, very comprehensive research, a damned good track record so far and IMO good advice in the last couple of chapters.

For the record< i don't think 911 or the ciurrent economic crisis are "the trigger". but I think we are clearly in the late stages of "The Unravelling". I suspect we will find that all the current efforts to deny reality and re-inflate the credit-driven bubble will take us into the real triggering crisis the book suggests or prophesizes ;-) that we will have to confront.