08-04-2020, 12:49 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-04-2020, 03:07 PM by Bob Butler 54.)
(08-04-2020, 12:05 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Please do remember that there is a double rhythm theory advanced here long ago, and that this links our turning with the civil war era.
It seems the double rhythm theory becomes more viable if you can't tell a high from an unraveling or an awakening from a crisis. In the Industrial Age one could easily tell the difference.
In the Information Age? If there are few to no crisis war triggers? If both the awakening and the crisis can transform the culture and more often use protest, non violence and legislation rather than war? If the infrastructure building and stomping on the old values in the high were not different from the selfishness and partisanship of the unraveling? If all these things became more or less true, you could make me a fan of the double rhythm theory, but not yet. We seem to be moving in that direction in the Information Age, but we have not got there yet.
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