02-17-2017, 05:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-17-2017, 06:04 PM by Eric the Green.)
(02-17-2017, 02:51 PM)Tuss Wrote:(12-04-2016, 06:22 AM)HoldOn Wrote: It should be noted that on sites like Reddit and Facebook, most people there seem to think 9/11 was the "breaking point" from Millennials to Gen Z, not the 2008 Recession/Obama election.
And they'de be right too. Just about any road of insanity that the culturo-political landscape of the present is on, can be traced back to 9/11. It was the day that opened the gates to the zoo (the cage that the Neo-Cohens were put in, for example), and it was the day the 90's ended. Slowly, the realization spread that society was truly unglued and the false flag watchmen off their rocker for real, and it wasn't fun. The financial crisis of 2008, on the other hand, happened in a society that was already apprehensive all over. (First time I heard about the imminent housing bubble was in 2005 at the latest, for example.)
No-one heard of the housing bubble in 2005. If you did, you were one of a few. Most people thought housing was the best possible investment. 2001 changed nothing; the neo-cons were already in, and they allowed it to happen. Neo-cons were nothing new; it was business as usual. The military-industrial complex had given us unnecessary war after unnecessary war for decades already. It was just back to normal. Like father, like son. Iraq, here we came, for no reason.
Bush was not the Crisis, any more than Coolidge was; he CAUSED the Crisis. But society wasn't wise to the unglued; they voted him back in, remember? On the basis of culture wars issues. Remember the name S&H gave to the 3T? It was still going full blast in 2004. Remember what Greg Palast said? My signature line for some years. All the voters cared about in red states were gay marriage, abortion and Monica Lewinsky. That was the election of 2004. Thoroughly 3T. There was something the matter with Kansas.
Generations begin a few years before a turning, so 2005 is an appropriate start date for Generation Z, or maybe a year or two before. Not 1998, which is what you are claiming if you say the 4T started in 2001.
And don't forget, this 4T is still getting started. That's what you understand if you realize that the 4T started in 2008, and will be a normal-length turning, because this is going to be a normal-length saeculum.
With Drump, there's no question that we are in Crisis now. He is a walking disaster. The Twilight Zone. Sick Society.