Clash of Civilizations Revisited and application to Generational Theory

[Eric the Green]

(11-12-2019, 10:49 PM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: An interesting concept, Teejay.  Huntington concentrated on civilizations as basic forms of organization and culture.  He didn't really conceive of multi-cultural  "worlds".

All of our societies now are or will become multi-cultural, in that all peoples of all cultures will be located everywhere. We are living in the last days of separate genetic lines. As Joseph Campbell well noted, jet planes and ocean liners make this a one world civilization, and Planet Earth is what we will be loyal to, not nations and races and separate cultures, in the not so distant future. With communications now extending worldwide, and travels extending beyond the planet, we are now spaceship Earth, the one sphere of thought, the global village, the global brain. Commerce and tech is international, borders are fluid, and the arts and sciences are pursued regardless of boundaries. The world wars made us a world civilization, and there's no going back. The founding of the League of Nations was a starting point for world governance, which will increase even if it is not at all exclusive. When we looked back at the blue marble in Dec.1968 and with subsequent satellite pictures, we discovered that the Earth has no boundaries from that point of view.

Nations and peoples before the world wars were on different saeculum timelines, but these are all coming into synch now, and it's the Western timeline that is dominant. Just when that happened is a matter for discussion, but to think they won't come into synch is old-fashioned thinking. No doubt a lot of that is still around, and it is enshrined in the White House right now. But Drumpface's version of reality is dishonest and unpopular and will not hold. Nor will that of his imitators like Boris Johnson and Nigel whatshisface.