02-27-2019, 11:40 AM
(02-26-2019, 04:06 PM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: Unfortunately, while I might get a glimpse of another Awakening (as a very old man), I have low expectations. We be 4T, and the next turning should be 1T. While I hope to see an-all-too-limited quantity of quality, I expect most material to be mediocre, if not outright junk.
As frustrated as I am with the way things are, I recognize that for an awakening era to truly take off, the Idealists of the last Awakening must be off the scene. Yes, there were Idealists of the Missionary Generation who lived into the Bo0om Awakening (among them Helen Keller, Samuel Goldwyn, Bertrand Russell, Pablo Picasso, and Igor Stravinsky), but by then the cultural achievements of the Missionary Generation were mostly fossilized.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.