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(04-07-2020, 05:08 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(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.

I see that quote as basically saying - "you can't turn back time. You can't bring back the past." So it is a repudiation of the MAGA perspective.