Authored by Chris Macintosh via InternationalMan.com,The Fourth Turning does not end with a return to the prior equilibrium. What distinguishes the people who navigate Fourth Turnings successfully is not superior prediction — the future is genuinely unknowable in its specifics — but superior optionality. And they have not surrendered the most fundamental asset of all: the capacity to act on their own judgement. The restoration of agency is therefore not merely a personal project; it is the foundational political act of the current historical moment. But it does predict that the people who enter the resolution phase with real assets, genuine skills, multiple jurisdictions, and uncompromised mental models will be disproportionately represented in whatever comes next.