05-22-2016, 05:09 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-22-2016, 05:11 PM by Eric the Green.)
(05-22-2016, 10:00 AM)Mikebert Wrote: What a minute. There was a thread on the old site called the megasaeculum. It proposed the idea that just as their are four turnings in a saeculum, there are four saecula in a megasaecula. I could swear I recall that the Plague 4T was a mega-crisis 4T or super-crisis, which would make the Reformation a mega-awakening 2T, or a super-awakening. Counting down four from the Plague 4T the American Revolution would be the next mega-crisis 4T, making the current 4T a mega-unraveling 4T, so that fits.
I don't recall that being a part of anyone's megasaeculum theory. But the Plague mega-crisis was at the end of a cycle of civilization, marking the end of the medieval era. The world wars (during the Great Power saeculum) were the next end in the cycle of civilization. The American Revolution and the turnings leading up to it scarcely constitute a crisis on the scale of those other two. It was an easy-going and relaxed era, and famously so.
It's certainly true that it's the new agers like me, and some other boomers and silents whatever you call 'em, that remember what the Awakening was about and what it means, while many younger people today have forgotten. But it's up to the younger people to learn and remember, then.
