The concept of the Fourth Turning, or the Crisis, is a theory created by the authors William Strauss and Neil Howe. It is part of an eighty year or so cycle that goes through four repeating periods, symbolized by the seasons of the year. This is why the Fourth Turning is sometimes known as Winter. According to the theory, this period usually lasts around twenty years and involves great disasters and turmoil, but at the end of the period, the nation may be reborn in a much stronger form. Of course, the crisis can also rip a country apart. The common American examples are the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War 2 and the Depression, although it is possible to go back further to crises such as the Glorious Revolution that had greater effects in Europe.
Generation Zero is a movie that includes concepts from the books of Strauss and Howe. This movie is about the Crisis, and reviews I have seen claim that it places a lot of blame on liberal baby boomers. I haven't seen Generation Zero, but I am guessing it will involve Freddie and Fannie, deregulation, and the conservative narrative that blames liberals for the housing bubble and providing loans to unqualified borrowers. I do agree that the Democrats share some blame because I remember the passage of NAFTA, and the Seattle and LA Democratic Convention protests.
Generation Zero also blames the hippies for becoming bankers and taking large financial risks, according to the Fox review. Everyone has heard this narrative, but in my opinion, it isn't true, there really aren't that many people who completely flipped their value system around like this. The older hippies I know would never try to live like the Wall Street crowd. A lot of people were not liberal 40 years ago, and aren't now.
The aggressive and controversial pitch that Generation Zero has reminds me of some of the more rebellious libertarians such as Ron Paul. It sounds like this movie is going to be heavily promoted by Fox, Glenn Beck, and the Senate and House Republicans. Paul, along with some of the libertarians and paleoconservatives, speaks out against wasting money on foreign wars. A person who would borrow trillions of dollars from China to fight an unending war in the Middle East is not a fiscal conservative, in my opinion.
On the Fourth Turning message board there is a poster named David Kaiser. He is a historian and is well known around the internet, although it's not for a reason he likes. An unknown person wrote a political essay and claimed that David Kaiser wrote it. It's called “Something of Historic Proportions is Happening”, conservatives like it and it attracted David Kaiser a lot of attention. It's a forgery. Some people attribute it to Pamela Geller, as far as I know she's not the original writer either. The over the top style of the essay does show the mood that the country is in right now. He is interviewed in Generation Zero, along with other commentators, who are mostly conservative and disagree with him. David Kaiser has a blog up, History Unfolding, and it has some good articles in my opinion.