Does this Crisis echo the Glorious Revolutuon?

[Eric the Green]

(01-24-2017, 10:06 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(01-24-2017, 11:57 AM)SomeGuy Wrote:

Quote:X are not going to be as much of a factor as Lost were.

Oh, do you have a crystal ball?  On what basis are you making that claim?

Quote:Millies are better equipped to lead than GIs were. The technology native thingey.

I dunno, the same could have been (and was) said about the GIs, who grew up with the cars, planes, radios, and other things that defined the 20th century.  And at this point, they were much better organized, and eventually fought and won a successful war.  The jury is still out on us Millies.

Provided the US comes out of the crisis intact, X, specifically people like Classic and Galen as represented by people like Cruz, are likely to do exactly the same thing that the Lost did - ensuring that the collective consensus that emerges from the regeneracy contains provisions safeguarding some degree of indiviidual rights, and providing a generation of caretaker leadership during the first turning.

Back when I was younger, I used to wonder where various personal liberty safeguards - like restrictions on use of IRS information, and allergies to requirements for universal ID - came from.  They certainly didn't come from the politically active factions during the Consciousness Revolution.

As I watch how X develops, it becomes clearer and clearer that those safeguards came from the Lost.  Reactives do their good deeds anonymously, without feeling a need to claim credit.  While this cycle's safeguards will be different, I feel confident that they will be there.

Classic and Galen, let me pass along thanks from my as yet unborn Idealist grandchildren.

No, they only give slogans of freedom, intended to deceive; not the real thing. Cruz would not protect any liberties. No, Idealist hippies types are allergic to universal ID. Listen to Jefferson Starship's first album.