Orion's Arm timeline

[Bill the Piper]

(09-18-2018, 11:49 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: I agree with more connection to the cosmos, and in the 2T this notion will extend beyond conventional science views to a revival of the previous 2T and 3T's interest in the ETs already visiting us. Awareness of the science that breaks though established materialist paradigms, so prominent in the New Age Movement, will be extended and brought into the light again. Wikipedia and many millennials may be able to suppress it on the internet now in this 4T, but that can't happen in an Awakening.

Ah, UFO!

It is likely that aliens have visited the Earth at some point, given that our planet is 4 billion years old. And we certainly aren't the first intelligent species to evolve in the Galaxy, let alone the Cosmos. But the claims of UFO enthusiasts don't convince me. First of all, what the UFO crew looks like? They are green or grey, almost human shapes. They have sunken cheeks and swollen foreheads (do they have muscles on their foreheads? maybe they use anabolic steroids... but why the spidery arms then?).

OA has a page of aliens discovered by the fictional society of 10000 AT. I think it gives a good idea how different lifeforms can be:

https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4b700fe54fb1f

It is also likely there are alien nano-devices on the Earth, so that other civilizations could observe ours. Chinese sci-fi writer Liu Cixin imagined the sophon - a computer made of a single proton. Such a device could be in your room and you'll never notice anything. Why send flying saucers if one can send nano-spies?

If UFOs did in fact come from other solar systems, they would have understanding of science far above ours, since a civilization capable of interstellar travel must be centuries ahead of us. I mean they would help us unsolved problems in particle physics or something. Yet the astronomer Frank Drake analysed what UFO crews allegedly had to say, and found nothing remarkable.

Quote:On the social-political level, there was more difference, but also much in common. The identity politics of civil rights, black power, feminism, gay rights, in the mid/late 1960s all broke through the Jim Crow era, which had remained intact during the 3rd great awakening; except that feminism took right off from where it flourished before. The social gospel populism that was later enshrined in the New Deal 4T was further fulfilled in the 2T Great Society. Strikes were more common than usual in both eras, but labor declined later in the counter-awakening of the Consciousness Revolution. So while rights movements were stronger in the 60s/70s 2T, labor and social legislation, while initially as strong as before, suffered reversals from the conservative counter-awakening--- which was stronger this time, from Goldwater to Reagan. In the third great awakening social gospel era, the same conservative reaction also came in the 1920s, on both scores; but only took hold once the 3T actually had already begun.

The Missionary awakening had some free love advocates like Emma Goldman, but it also featured movements focused on moral discipline, such as the social purity movement. A similar movement is likely given the hedonistic nature of the millennial cycle. Sometimes we need rights movements, to give us more freedom and make creativity possible. But there are also times when we need discipline to curb animalistic instincts and direct energy towards civilized activities.

Quote:In the next 2T I also expect another drive toward a "great society" in which forgotten people rise up and are given new opportunities, and that this will be a worldwide trend this time. The environmental movement will be extended and brought even more to a community level. I already see labor being transformed starting in the current 4T, as computers and robots and free trade are making labor as we knew it obsolete, which also means the Republican anti-welfare trickle-down theories will also be outdated, and redistribution of wealth will be back in vogue instead of put down. Much change along these lines will happen in the next 2T as well. Meanwhile, the counter-awakening of the Jesus movement and the moral majority brought back the traditional authoritarian great awakenings of past 2Ts. So this might be expected again in the 2050s as well.

Exactly. Technology will make labour obsolete, leaving humans free to enjoy social, artistic and intellectual activity. So, the opposition between capitalism and socialism won't make sense any longer.