"Climax" year of each turning

[Bob Butler 54]

(06-03-2020, 11:47 AM)Isoko Wrote: In my own honesty, I think that the next Awakening is going to be more centre-right if anything. Birth rates are going down, immigration into Western societies is driving them apart and leftist values continually push the West down the Sodom and Gomorrah road. I think that the current millennials will defend the status quo but the next Awakening will see what is failing in society and attempt to rectify it in their own image.

That’s the unravelling mindset, the hedonism. You care more about Sodom, Gomorrah and yourself than the community. I certainly won’t argue that we have not seen a good deal of that, but lately it comes more from the right than the left. They want go ignore problems and go back to the grand old party. Let the virus kill. Let the planet be destroyed. Let the bridges fail. Let's save taxes by supporting small government and party! Those aren't problems. They are all fake news and hoaxes. It is the left who says getting down to work and solving problems is necessary, and that get together and rebuild the country mood will be an element of the post crisis new normal.

Assuming the turnings turn, by the awakening the nomads will have just completed the high mentality of building infrastructure and stepping on the old values. If during the crisis the Democrats manage to push ecological responsibility and bridge repair, I don’t know what the new prophets will find to complain and protest about. However, I expect the economic fallout of the virus will leave the US with little choice but put ecology on the back burner. If so, the new prophets may become highly oriented towards ecology and be mad that the older generations that did not care about ruining the planet.

But things get fuzzy that far in the future. We have to resolve the crisis heart first. The bug, racial equality in policing and the economy seem to be hot issues. Will other problems seem important after the inauguration? When we see which problems the Democrats try to solve, and more importantly which problems they leave unsolved, we can try to predict what the new prophets will work themselves up about. What are the handful of problems that are the greatest issues confronting the culture?