The 16th century will return!
The 16th century will return! In the previous series, I compared the centuries of the 20th, 21st, and upcoming 22nd to the maiden, mother, and the crone. I think it’s only fair to compare this to their masculine counterparts, the centuries of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries using a similar but contrasting format. What we can call the father, the son, and the holy ghost or just the grandfather. Interestingly, this time it is reversed. Instead of the maiden aging into the mother and then the crone, the holy ghost or the grandfather gives way to the father, which then begets the son. The 16th century is the grandfather era, the 17th century is the father era, and the 18th century is the son era. People often complain about the 20th century for how it caused “the death of the father”, setting up incentives to make fathers seem irrelevant. This “death of the father” theme is very much present in 20th century media and symbolized the end of the masculine coded...