06-05-2020, 05:11 AM
(06-04-2020, 08:48 AM)David Horn Wrote:(06-03-2020, 09:15 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: If you want an analogy -- a Regeneracy has an analogue in people hitting bottom as their bad practices prove unsustainable. One has a destructive or wasteful habit that will bring ruin. If alcoholism it is gutting one's health and costing a pretty penny. If one is a problem gambler what one spends in the excitement of the casino or betting parlor might better be salting such funds away into a retirement account or a child's college fund.
I agree that this is the inflection point. The Regeneracy is a response that positively addresses the challenge. There's is always the option of doing the wrong thing, though.
The most obvious wrong thing is to keep doing what got one into the mess.
So maybe instead of going to the bar, strip club, or a casino one takes a second job. It might not be fun, but it turns wasted time into the ultimate objective of capitalism -- making people already filthy rich even more filthy rich, which is all that seems to matter anymore. At least for now.
For society as a whole it could be changing from a corporatist set of values to one that relies upon small business... convincing people that starting a small business with no guarantees but more potential beats holding on for dear life to a job as a glorified clerk, doing something creative instead of conventional (or vice-versa if one comes to recognize that one's talent is going thin), turning away from being a sucker for low prices to irrelevant stuff instead of paying more but being more selective and liking what one gets more, going from borrowing to saving, and of course rejecting the failed politicians of recent times. The always-unattractive course of making a low-yield, long-term investment that requires much work to pull off (a shoe-string business) never attractive in times of easy money (any time but a 4T) except to people on the edge of pariah status become mainstream when viable alternatives disappear.
What works at the end or near the end of a 4T becomes a set pattern for the 1T. Good habits are worth the hardship.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.