Who Can Beat Trump?

[Eric the Green]

(09-11-2018, 12:39 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Using astrology to confuse a right with regression?  Eric all over.

Planetary Dynamics, as you well know. Spiral Dynamics, updated. An archetype. Uranus = Orange. Early middle-class industrial. Bourgeois, Girondist. Settembrini.

Settembrini: Humanism[edit]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Mountain
Settembrini represents the active and positive ideal of the Enlightenment, of Humanism, democracy, tolerance and human rights. He often finds Castorp literally in the dark and switches on the light before their conversations. He compares himself to Prometheus of Greek mythology, who brought of fire and enlightenment to Man. His own mentor Giosuè Carducci has even written a hymn to another lightbringer: to Lucifer, "la forza vindice della ragione." His ethics are those of bourgeois values and labor. He tries to counter Castorp's morbid fascination with death and disease, warns him against the ill Madame Chauchat, and tries to demonstrate a positive outlook on life.

(a little known aspect of this novel is its positive treatment of astrology, an aspect of the central role in the novel as a meditation on time)

Also, you could interpret my statement to mean that a society that needs personal guns to feel safe, has regressed; meaning not only in its belief in guns, but a state of society generally that is unsafe to live in. Such a regressed society, say for example like Honduras, does not have social support, functional institutions or respect for law or the rights of others, and so only has guns and other tools of violence to fall back on. The USA (or at least the red states thereof) in the last 40 years has gone increasingly in that direction.