America is a sick society

[David Horn]

(08-07-2017, 10:20 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: I'd agree failure is theoretically its own corrective.  Europe had World War II fought all over its soil.  That's quite a corrective.  Kansas?  While they may be starting to get it, too few people in the rest of the country don't see a problem with a debt economy.  Too many people can also ignore the climate problem.  I don't know how long it will take before the problems get in you face not ignore-able.

History has given us several major changes, but the most dramatic have all happened in the last 200 years or so.  It's hard to base a recurrent theme of 80 year cycles on such thin gruel.  I guess we'll have to see if the rising Civic generation lives up to expectations and acts decisively.  I tend toward pessimism, so I try to overlay optimism on my projections to balance that.  I'm sure I don't do it well. 

We Boomers have made a mess of things, but certainly no worse than the Transcendentals did in their time.  Of course, the Transcendentals marched the nation into the ACW, so a better outcome can still be plenty bad.