Past As Prologue with Michael Phillips
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description: MP3 Download This is a 1983 restored archival program. Santayana said, “Those who do not understand history are condemned to repeat it “ A paraphrase on this famous aphorism for today's program might be, ”Those who do understand history are empowered to predict the future.” Michael Phillips argues that historical patterns, particularly baby booms, shape major legislative and social change. Phillips presents a striking theory: the WWII baby boom, like the nearly identical Civil War baby boom before it, produced a distinct generational cluster of political values whose eventual legislative impact can be predicted with real accuracy. Drawing on U.S. census data and a chance research trip to Japan, Phillips traces uncanny parallels between the 1890s and the 1960s–70s: the health food craze (Post, Kellogg's, peanut butter), a wave of new religious and mystical movements (Christian Science, Theosophony, Zen Buddhism), utopian communes, and the women's suffrage movement's slow path from social consensus to constitutional law. He examines Teddy Roosevelt's conservationist legacy, the Populist "People's Party," and Tammany Hall-style political machines as templates for understanding late-20th-century politics. The conversation turns to concrete forecasts — a strengthened EPA, expanded protected wilderness, national recycling policy, and reform of IRS, FBI, and CIA secrecy (via the Freedom of Information Act) — all tied to Phillips's prediction that baby boomers would control Congress by the 1990s. He closes with cautious optimism about the military-industrial complex and America's evolving role in multilateral defense. (hosted by Michael Toms) Bio Michael Phillips, now retired, was the creator of the modern universal multi-bank creditcard (Mastercard), founder of the Briarpatch Network the first voluntary business network. He is retired as a business consultant to over 1,500 businesses worldwide of all sizes. Expert witness in marketing, finance, management, business ethics,…
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