As you suggest, Bannon is a very interesting guy, especially to me as
he's strongly supported me and Generational Dynamics over the years.
This is still going on, incidentally. There's been a fair amount of
controversy among the Breitbart editors about whether they should
continue cross-posting my articles, given my previous relationship
with Bannon, and the fact that I keep referring to it in my articles,
which I think they view as somewhat presumptious and self-serving
(which maybe it is), though it's also necessary to provide a context.
The controversy has apparently been resolved by continuing to
cross-post my articles, including the ones where I refer to Bannon and
Generational Dynamics. In my opinion, this conclusion could not have
been reached unless it was approved by Bannon himself in the last
couple of weeks.
Yesterday, there was a lengthy article in the NY Times about
Breitbart. I made a PDF of it so that it can be read w/o going behind
the NYT paywall.
http://jxenakis.com/gdgraphics/NYTimes- ... 170816.pdf
This article is mainly about Alexander Marlow, with whom I've only
rarely exchanged messages, so I don't know what he thinks of me or
Generational Dynamics. However, he obviously at least tolerates it,
because I'm still cross-posting -- though I'm pretty sure, once again,
that Marlow is following Bannon's wishes.
To me what's also interesting about the NYT article is that it talks a
lot about Bannon and mentions the Fourth Turning, with no mention
about my relationship with Bannon or Breitbart.
This is consistent with what I've seen many times over the years --
that Generational Dynamics is like pornography in that a lot of people
are reading my articles, but no one wants to admit it. Actually, the
Breitbart site itself is also in that category.
The American Prospect article is also interesting because the talk
about a ten-year trade war with China directly contradicts the
Generational Dynamics predictions about China. Bannon very well
understands the predictions, so Bannon's statements in that article
mean that either he doesn't believe the predictions, or that he
believes them and is talking about a trade war for political reasons,
since it would be political suicide to predict a war with China. I
tend to believe the latter.
There's another data point here. About a month ago a NYT reporter
called me and asked me questions about Generational Dynamics and Steve
Bannon. He said that Bannon told him to call me, though I have no
independent verification of that. Anyway, I answered all his
questions and talked about the China predictions, so at least one
person on the NYT staff is aware of them. Nothing of our phone
conversation made it into print that I'm aware of.
Bannon is a brilliant person. He's using me as a pawn in a larger
political game that I'm completely unable to fathom. I'm going along
with it because I like Steve and I trust him, and because it's to my
benefit anyway. Still, I wonder if I'll live long enough to find out
what's really going on.
Whether Bannon is going to be forced out remains to be seen. There's
a perfectly reasonable explanation that says that Bannon and Trump are
in sync on policy, but that the talk about Bannon leaving is just part
of the circus to throw people off the scent of what they're really
planning. If this is true, it would be consistent with the view that
they believe the Generational Dynamics predictions, and are trying to
implement countermeasures.
There's one more point related to earlier posts in this thread. No
one wants to talk about a new world war, but most people are
viscerally aware of what's coming at some level of consciousness or
semi-consciousness. Even though what's coming becomes more obvious
every day, the vast majority of people are in a state of denial, and
use a form of escapism by focusing on political issues like
Charlottesville, which is almost completely irrelevant to what's going
on in the world.