8 generations of 4 cycle, one hundred years and history repeats itlsef again, and gain, and again.

Smart hardworking people with perspectives and dreams make life sweet. Two generations, about 25 years.

The sweet life makes people stupid and lazy, without prospects and without dreams, all they want is fun. Two generations, another 25 years.

Stupid and lazy people don't think about the future and don't create anything, they just destroy what they have for fun, profit, wealth and to sow up. Two generations, another 25 years of destruction.

The accumulated destruction brings hard times and makes life miserable, people start to take the disaster seriously and start learning how to make life better. Two generations, about another 25 years of toil and mourning.

We are in the second phase, the evil is just now starting to show its fangs, 50 years of great mourning await us.