04-07-2020, 05:08 PM
(04-07-2020, 04:26 PM)sbarrera Wrote: [A]lthough one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation. - Hagakure
Brief tangent.
I sort of take the opposite tack from Hagakure. I see the S&H Crisis sequence as solving problems that occurred commonly in the Agricultural Age, and were no longer tolerated shifting into the Industrial Age pattern. Swapping in democracy, freeing slaves, opposing the Robber Barons, suppressing the fascists, all were good things. Overall, I would not look back with fondness, except perhaps for the New Deal through Great Society progressive time. Even then, the home PCs are better now, and I don't miss the live draft cards, coat hanger abortions, smelly streams, overt racism, glass ceilings, and other flaws which still existed through much of that time. I still see a very real arrow of progress.
Making the best out of every generation I could agree with though.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.