11-27-2016, 12:26 PM
(11-18-2016, 08:31 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Sometimes nations in a 4T try all sorts of bad solutions before coming up with the right one ...
I don't see how e can avoid a period of experimentation, since we are totally in the dark about the course we must follow. Isn't that a huge part of the 4T ethic? If we knew what to do, there would be no reason for a crisis.
FWIW, I assume the next iteration will involve a full restructuring of the system we have currently locked in place by the Constitution. Doing that will be hard ... very hard. It could involve the Constitutional convention that has never happened to date, or some form of social disintegration that leads to who-knows-what. In any case, it will be dramatic, if it happens. Stasis is also a possibility, and crisis will simply pass unresolved for now.
If the solution is the non-solution, then the next 2T will see the last 2T on steroids, and the 4T ... I hate to think. We're running a post-modern America on an Agricultural Age political model. At some point, that has to break down.
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