11-13-2019, 04:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-13-2019, 04:36 PM by Eric the Green.)
(11-13-2019, 09:11 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote:(11-10-2019, 11:16 AM)David Horn Wrote:(11-10-2019, 06:59 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: It created a very colourful saeculum. Music from our cycle especially from the 1980s will probably be played for centuries. Same for movies and fashion. I can't imagine the boys of 2200 not knowing Rocky.
When it comes to politics, I prefer the Missionaries.
We Boomers have more in common with the Transcendentals, and that make us a bit scary. I agree, the Missionaries were a better version of Prophet.
Boomer politics is simply demented doom, their orientations are varied but all agree in rejecting rationality and civilization. The evangelicals chose theocratic mysticism, while the hippies chose Earth-worship and the "neoliberals" chose magic of the market.
That's not demented doom. Civilization and rationality are not rejected. Rationality as the prior religion as reason uber alles is rejected. We need all our faculties, not just one which has limited application. Thinking and words are too limited and clumsy to base all our actions on. We need greater awareness. We are all distorted and confined by the uncontrolled activity of mind chatter, and need to learn to meditate. The Pew chart that said the Greatest Generation "meditates" is absurd. Pew must be using a different definition of meditation. It is suspension of thinking, and focused awareness; not thinking about stuff.
Please view the videos I posted by Watts and Sheldrake under the scientism thread. Everyone needs to see those. People have a lot of misconceptions about science and worldviews; these authors and speakers are truly great communicators and fun to listen to.
Neo-liberalism is demented; I wouldn't say doom necessarily, but it has been carried to an extreme, and not by boomers! By conservatives of all generations including white millennials. It needs to be defeated as our governing political ideology, and has not been for 40 years.
Earth worship is the opposite of doom; it is needed for survival. It is WITHOUT Earth worship that we are doomed. Get that straight; you have it reversed! It is needed for survival of civilization!
Civilization can be seen also as sometimes a limiting factor and not the only value. We need to admit Nature back into our lives and our being, and free ourselves from the authority of imposed and cruel kinds of civilization. But on the whole, if reformed and advanced, civilization is seen by boomers and all generations as a positive and also productive of many high values.
The sixties greenpeace and spiritual revolutions began under a Uranus-Pluto conjunction, like the previous such conjunctions that occurred at the beginning of the previous democratic and socialist revolutions. The sixties awakening and its revolutionary ideals cannot ever be "out of date" and are not the sole characteristic of "boomers." A revolution continues to expand and grow until it governs a large portion of humanity. It reaches a fullfillment stage at the opposition in which it takes appreciable power.
Please read:
http://philosopherswheel.com/thethreerevolutions.html