Gray Champion Predictions

[Bob Butler 54]

(07-15-2020, 10:19 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(07-15-2020, 09:11 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: And yet, it kicked off the progressive era.  If America was great, it was then.  The great problems of the crisis have always been solved.

Sure, the turnings are going to hit unravelling again.  We will get selfish again.  Things will look bad and be bad again.  The slavery compromises are enough that the elites will be dominant again.

The Agricultural Age was bad.  Since, we could only solve a few problems per crisis.  No, we are not apt to end the cycles this time around, to solve the last crisis.  We don't know how much we will address this early in, and how much will have to wait for the next transformation.

Again, let's not be disappointed in advance.  The change is always greater than it looks like going in.

The unique problem this time is the interwoven nature of the crises.  AGW must be addressed if anything else is to succeed, but so must the social stresses trying to tear us apart.  If we're at each other throats, nothing will advance.  COVID may actually be the least problem, though the total lack o preparation for the pandemic and the economic fallout still makes the cut.  IN short, we need to remove the rot and rebuild a lot of societal structure while solving multiple crises at the same time.

COVID 19 may not be the largest problem, but it might well put the right people in charge and prove to a lot of people that you cannot ignore problems be wishing them away. It may lead other problems to be addressed that are not yet being addressed beyond campaign promises.