12-23-2019, 03:25 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-23-2019, 03:30 PM by Eric the Green.)
(12-23-2019, 04:03 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: If you are curious about the future, you can browse the timeline on Orion's Arm:
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45b2afc424975
Or maybe this one:
https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentu...entury.htm
And all of this is speculation, because noone can know the future beyond trivial statements like "there will be cold days in December 2200".
From S&H perspective, a lot depends on who wins the current 4T. If the Left wins, we will have something like "environmental emergency" high. If the Nationalists win, they won't be able to establish a proper 1T because the elites despise them. This would indicate a blank period followed by another 4T or a 2T with a lot of Civic themes like the Solidarity awakening in 1980s Poland.
The future can't be known, at least not in any detail, but don't forget I have predicted the basic outlines and major events of recent decades.
The elites may despise Trump but many of them are all too happy to support him because he lowers taxes and regulations, and our elites basically only care about those things. But otherwise I think I agree. If the nationalists win, then the 1T would be a period of tremendous decline as the business elites will get carte blanche to continue destroying our government and filling the courts with reactionaries. But the rising ethnic groups and millennials may not wholly go away, so that may be the soil from which a new awakening could grow. Such a 2T would be a tough row to hoe, but meanwhile the nationalists would be able to deceive and comfort the white masses with their cover ups and fake news so that for them it might feel like a normal, if blank, 1T.
I am fairly confident the Left will win and continue our economic and ecological transformation toward a sustainable nation and world during the 1T. That would also mean that, unlike if the Right-wing wins, the 2T may actually be somewhat calm and euphoric, even as it could be drastic in the level of change effected on cultural as well as political levels. It could be like Lyndon Johnson without Vietnam, or at least a smaller one stopped by the peace movement before it gets out of hand.