COVID-19 is the perfect 4T event?

[David Horn]

(05-26-2020, 01:46 PM)LPDec63 Wrote:

(05-25-2020, 10:14 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(05-22-2020, 09:42 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(05-20-2020, 09:52 PM)beechnut79 Wrote: In what ways might you feel as though the whole saga of COVID-19 have a perfect storm quality to it?  Do you feel that it is now the essential workers/first responders turn to shine?  Might there still be those who may want to play and shut out and ignore anything ugly that is ruining any and all picture perfect days?  Might we call this the Nero fiddle syndrome?  Sometimes life is messy and not exactly what we’d envisioned.

There is a honor to the essential workers and first responders element.  Let’s give honor to that.

The Nero Fiddle Syndrome has always been a part of the red unraveling mindset.  Any problem that is too expensive to run on a small government with low taxes just gets called a hoax or fake news.  They just want to play in their picture perfect world and dream on.  They would prefer to ignore the science, and ignore any responsibility for the future.  They make it about their rights not about benefiting the community.

COVID-19 is unlike most other problems in that it comes home to roost fast.  If you ignore the problem, it hits your community hard and fast.  It makes it hard to just ignore the problem and hope it will go away.  Some will try.  There seems to be a conservative right to live in their dream world.  One should never be forced to commit to the community, to be concerned more with the country than one’s self.

In that it is a sort of perfect storm.

The other thing is the timing.  It seems to be leaving enough time that by the election it will be absolutely clear that something has to be done and that the selfish people trying to live in the past blew it.

I think that is enough?

That's the hinge on this gate: 'we' or 'me'!  The 'me' crowd is getting more invested in magical thinking by the day, so let's agree that they aren't the source of a solution to this problem or any problem that needs a coordinated response.  They are also a relatively large contingent, so they can't be ignored.  Since they will fight any coordinated effort as an infringement on their right to do as they damn well please, it's hard to see anything more effective than muddle.  4Ts aren't about muddle.  Scary!

A lot of those "Me" folks were born in the 70's, which were once known as the "Me Decade".  

What we need is a "We Decade".

In theory, the Millennials were expected to fill that role, but too many live in the virtual world to be reliable advocates (to say nothing of actors) in the real world.  Of course, that can change quickly, and may be changing outside my range of vision for all I know. What I don't see is a real leader of any generation who can move us forward.  Bernie Sanders gave it a good shot, but came up short twice.  No one else is viable.