06-14-2016, 01:42 AM
(06-14-2016, 12:10 AM)taramarie Wrote: How could they not know how he functions? Even the kiwi knows and i am not even from America or in that country. Guess when you are viewing it from the outside bias does not blind you.
Wishful thinking on the part of many. Consider Eric the Obtuse and his obsessions, an extreme case admittedly, but dreadfully common among the Boomers. Fourth turnings are the cause of systems and ideas that are well past their expiration date.
Consider this article by Paul Graham, an Xer a bit older than I am, and then think of how Trump with his "Make America Great" is in many ways promising to bring that mid-century world back. Yet Trump is also a rebellion against the status quo of the last forty years. Definitely a contradiction but that is but one of many contradictions that will die in fourth turnings.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises