The New Crisis War Unfolding Now?

[Eric the Green]

(08-03-2018, 11:28 AM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: I was reviewing an archived civil war thread.  In it gianthogweed commented that there are two types of Civic generations:  1.  Builders of public empires.  2.  Builders of private empires.  These correspond to Apollo and Dionysus cycles respectively.

This time around, without a blue print for a grand new public order, we can expect the Millennials to not be builders of great public institutions..  They may uphold a patched up system, but their focus will be on building private institutions.

I don't think it is so simple as that. The Dionysian cycle, as Chas called it, has other potential besides privatization. The blue prints for a grand new world are abundantly available, from such people as Marianne Williamson, the new ager who is going to run for president. She has a snowball's chance in hell of winning, but it indicates that the blue prints are still there and have a following. If the millennials build a new order appropriate to this saeculum's climax, and into the next 1T, it will be far more than a Reaganoid private order Gilded Age II. The ideals from the recent 2T are still calling to us, and are required to build a new order out of the current chaos. Above all, these are the greenpeace ideals. The new order will need to be new technology and new institutions that protect the life of this threatened planet, and restore human community lost through the depersonalization of today's old technology.

They may not be as public oriented as social security and medicare, or the interstate highway system and the defense department. But restoring community and personal values to our society will require institutions of smaller scale, and more cooperative and community oriented. This is more than privatization; it is personalization, and connection to what gives life. That is what Dionysus is all about. Apollo is detached and abstract; Dionysus is connected, romantic and alive. 

The Reagan and neo-liberal distortion of the trends toward individual expression during the Awakening, will be seen for what they were; cynical appeals to the past, rather than the actual ideals of the awakening era that give life. Reagan was the adversary and nemesis of the awakening, first and foremost; not its prophet.

If millennials actually DO follow the blueprint that HAS been laid out in the recent Awakening, they will at least prepare the way for this new society. No doubt the next Apollonian prophets will do much more to make the virtual digital high-tech world more connected to real people, community and life. But the millennials, at least, need to restore the public consciousness and the value of public institutions well enough to direct technology and society down the path of greater connection to Earth and Spirit and greater diversity and community, as the next saeculum starts to unfold. Protection of life from the wayward impulses of the 3T era they grew up in will be a top priority. As Cameron Kasky said, the world has betrayed the victims of this false individualism, which expresses itself in gun nuttery and Reaganoid, neo-liberal greed with racist dog whistle social darwinism. Mere high tech and big institutions of private commerce will NOT satisfy millennials if they can glimpse the needs of our time, and connect to the recent true awakening ideals that provide a blueprint to satisfy and provide for those needs.

Xers and Boomers alike in recent years have covered up and dismissed the great values of the recent Awakening. Gen X has not been willing to connect to those ideals, because the awakening era left them out in the cold to fend for themselves as young people. But that does not mean they can't be practical mentors as elders to millennials, and bring peace and order as the millies enter midlife and go about building the new world of the next saeculum.