11-08-2018, 04:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-08-2018, 04:41 PM by Tim Randal Walker.)
I apologize in advance because I recall neither title nor author.....
Awhile back I came across a book in the public library which discussed regionalization in the USA. One point the book made was that some regions are much more socially conservative than others.
Radical social change came out of the (Blue version of) Boom Awakening. But if the voters in a region are socially conservative, I can see them sacrificing their economic interests in an attempt to hold back social change. Result-a cold (so far) civil war while economic elites take advantage of the situation.
This sort of conflict-social conservatism versus social change-may be a feature of a Dyonisus cycle. This may be less so for an Apollo cycle, given the focus on worldly, outer directed issues. For example, due to its economic focus (New Deal) the last 4T gave people reason to unite across the Red/Blue divide.
Awhile back I came across a book in the public library which discussed regionalization in the USA. One point the book made was that some regions are much more socially conservative than others.
Radical social change came out of the (Blue version of) Boom Awakening. But if the voters in a region are socially conservative, I can see them sacrificing their economic interests in an attempt to hold back social change. Result-a cold (so far) civil war while economic elites take advantage of the situation.
This sort of conflict-social conservatism versus social change-may be a feature of a Dyonisus cycle. This may be less so for an Apollo cycle, given the focus on worldly, outer directed issues. For example, due to its economic focus (New Deal) the last 4T gave people reason to unite across the Red/Blue divide.