11-09-2019, 08:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-09-2019, 08:05 PM by Eric the Green.)
(11-08-2019, 08:16 AM)Hintergrund Wrote:(11-06-2019, 09:36 PM)beechnut79 Wrote: There was a book I read some time ago that indicated that the big challenge of this century should be to rein in excessive corporate power just as excessive totalitarian state power was reined in during the last century. Think we can accomplish this before this 4T is out?
Does that book say how exactly to achieve that?
(11-07-2019, 09:20 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: Concentration of wealth will be resolved by the crisis war, one way or another.
If the Crisis plays out as they did in the past. But what if not? It's my pet theory that longer lives have drawn out the Unraveling. (Check the threads in my sig.) If we have to wait another decade until politicians will be ready to act - will the X-ers be ready to manage, in stressful jobs? Will the Millies be ready to fight? Will the then-adult Homelanders block every big decision because they're too neurotic to stand them? And all of that because the old Silents neither die nor give up meddling with the world.
The only problem with that pet theory is that the saeculum is still right on schedule. A saeculum, archetypally, is 84-years long. The end of world war two and the JFK assassination came a bit early in the last years of their turning (the last 4T and 1T), and that means that the cycle was rounded out by a normal length 2T and an extended 3T. And we are now in 1850s redux, so we are now in a crisis that some people could call an extended unravelling, but it's right on schedule. The 4T will last until 2029. We have almost 10 years left now. A crisis war could still come; it could be smaller-scale, and it will likely be both domestic and foreign. But it will resolve whether our republic will survive, and in what form. And there will be plenty of Boomers, Xers and Millies acting out their archetypal crisis roles over the next 10 years. I'm not sure it matters much if some of those "boomers" are boomer-silent cuspers. The war babies are a powerful and brilliant sub-generation and are natural leaders. They are born under a Uranus-Neptune trine. That's why Pelosi, Sanders, Biden, McConnell, Bloomberg et al are hanging around.