01-23-2018, 05:13 PM
(01-23-2018, 11:51 AM)David Horn Wrote: We're entering the second Age following the Industrial. That alone is enough to change the tenor of things.
Can I demand a recount? The common wisdom might put us in the fourth age, if you count hunter-gatherer, agricultural, industrial, post scarcity. This suggests nukes, computer networks and renewable energy tumps chemical weapons, industrial production and oil.
But I don't doubt old patterns might break, that the tenor might change. No more crisis wars between major powers? Guerrilla wars become more common? Awakenings become the turning of change, not crisis? The patterns found in western history become irregular?
Too soon to tell.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.