Generational Dynamics World View

[John J. Xenakis]

(07-03-2018, 03:42 PM)David Horn Wrote: > Whatever you're using to post, it sucks. I haven't dealt with the
> hard per-line character limit in 20 years!

Well, it's a generational thing. You kids use the new-fangled long
lines, but I prefer the old-fashioned way, sticking to the 72
characters per line of text (to the left of the 8-digit sequence
number) on IBM punch cards.

(07-03-2018, 03:42 PM)David Horn Wrote: > Well, you can certainly hold a grudge if you want to look back 50
> years. Just fyi: most of that was political theater.

Really? Were Hitler's concentration camps just political theatre
too? You're an idiot.

(07-03-2018, 03:42 PM)David Horn Wrote: > Since I've never been fond of Chavez either, and thought Stalin
> and Mao were as despicable as you do, what's your beef here? You
> can't just assign political positions to others because it's
> convenient for you.

Well, I did assume that you're a left-winger. Maybe you should drop
the left-wing political theatre and start supporting MAGA.

(07-03-2018, 03:42 PM)David Horn Wrote: > He's going after Merkel as hard as he can, and he's insulted just
> about every ally we have in Europe and the Far East. Of course,
> he loves the Saudis, Erdogan and Duterte -- to say nothing of
> Putin. He's even friendly with Kim Jong-un, for God's
> sake!

Merkel? You love Merkel?

• Is she the one that just agreed to border migrant camps and fences
  -- just like Trump wants on our border? Is that the one you mean?
  
  
• Or do you mean the Merkel who lectures everyone about climate
  change to fool left wing useful idiots, while Germany's CO2 emissions
  keep increasing, and the 2020 goals are a joke?
  
  
• Are you referring to Germany, the "dieselgate" country that sold
  emissions detection defeat devices for over ten years so that, once
  again, Germany could make fools out of useful idiot climate change
  activists? Is that the Germany that you mean? (I won't include you
  among the useful idiot climate change activists, since I don't want to
  "assign" to you the view that you support the climate change treaty
  nonsense. It's all political theatre and a financial scam.)
  
  
• Or maybe you mean the Germany with the rising AfD neo-nazi party?
  Is it that Germany you're so in love with?
  
  
• Or do you mean the Germany that charges 10 times as much in
  tariffs for American imports as America charges for German imports,
  but still refuses to remove all tariffs as Trump suggested? Is that
  the one you mean?

Which of those Germanies do you find so exciting that you've fallen in
love with them?

I'll go back and answer one more of your questions, the one about why
Trump is friendly with Kim Jong-un. Donald Trump is well aware that
we're headed for war with China (Steve Bannon is an expert on
Generational Dynamics), and is well aware that Kim Jong-un building an
arsenal of nuclear weapons pointing at the United States -- leading to
World War. Trump is aware of all this, and by befriending Xi Jinping
and Kim Jong-un, he's desperately trying to prevent a world war, and
befriending these two maniacs is a small price to pay to prevent a
world war. Trump is aware of the Generational Dynamics predictions,
but like many people (probably including yourself), he probably
believes the predictions can be prevented -- which they can't. World
war is coming with 100% certainty, but I can't blame Trump for trying
the impossible - to prevent it.

As I've written in the past, everything that Trump does makes
sense to me. That doesn't mean he doesn't make mistakes, but
it makes sense.