(10-25-2020, 12:36 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: I don't know how lasting the effect of covid may be. It exposed the failure of neo-liberal rule, for sure. I hope Americans wake up. They are certainly in a dark place that has unfolded over the last 40+ years. But if neo-liberalism IS overthrown, I see much light returning. It is the only thing holding it back. I don't think "karma" is much of an issue. All nations have a lot of bad karma. It's a matter of turning toward the light instead.
But we all have to face the karma of climate change, and it's coming on and will be for a while. Of course a Biden win will be crucial; otherwise climate change speeds up and the hothouse will certainly be swallowing the planet by the time those dark days of the early 2100s come around.
But if we DO depose neo-liberalism, then things could be brighter, and we'll see those public arts and the momentum toward world cooperation and federation gaining steam throughout the 21st century. The 2140s will also be a potential high and bright period. Such Neptune-Pluto opposition periods every 500 years may see some divisions, and aggressive expansions and crusades happen at these times too, but they have almost always been high points in the cycle. Think of Chartres Cathedral and the Taj Mahal for example. It could be the only potential time in which we make something worthwhile from our current civilization. Such hope is not guaranteed, but it's all we have left after we pretty much blew our potential renaissance period now ending. Some creative development is still possible if we depose neo-liberalism and shift away from xenophobia and racism.
I don't know if Covid will stop globalization. I don't see it as continuing to be a crisis for much longer once Trump and neo-liberalism are deposed, and if Kamala is not nominated in 2024. Otherwise, then that's another story. As you or someone pointed out, although the refugee crisis has eased since the Arab Spring, climate change will create still more, and upheavals might continue although at a lesser clip than in that catastrophic period that I predicted would happen around 2010-2011. So, migration will likely continue as more areas of the planet become unlivable. Racism and xenophobia are doomed in the long run due not only to travel but to intermarriage. Some centuries from now, races may no longer exist.
I didn't know you were an energy reader. I look at the planetary cycles, and the facts on the ground too, but all sources of info are useful.
-- ya don't get rid of neolibturdism by electing a neolibturd. Orange Thang is bad but he's not a neolibturd. ytf do you think the repug neolibturds are all lining up behind Groper Joe? Well that & he's a repug in blue drag. But neolibturdism's daze are numbered. Pluto is in the last stages of Capricorn & the last time that happened the Revolution happened. l expect something similar 2 happen during the next few years. ppl are already calling 4 guillotines
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