A More Hopeful Way to Look at Time

Instead of viewing progress as linear, see it as a spiral

Yancey Strickler
Forge
Published in
4 min readJul 5, 2020

--

Photo: Picture Alliance/Contributor/Getty Images

For millennia, thinkers from ancient philosophers to modern cosmologists have grappled with the question of how time functions. In a book called The Fourth Turning, the authors William Strauss and Neil Howe sort the theories of time into three categories:

--

--

Yancey Strickler
Forge

Author of “This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World”; Cofounder of Kickstarter; Bentoist; http://www.ystrickler.com