03-14-2021, 11:07 AM
(03-14-2021, 06:29 AM)Captain Genet Wrote:(06-29-2020, 04:05 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: If there were ever a Golden Age it would be one of a balance between the positive virtues of all four turnings with none of the vices. That is a pipe dream. We are stuck with the generational cycle a s a way of compelling us to adapt to the time and respond as quickly as possible to a needful trait that we neglect. Bad as a 3T goes, it at least forces us to pay attention to the children again so that they not become cynical and helpless and that people enjoy some hedonistic delights that give them some memories just in time for recollection for the upcoming era of stark deprivation.
When we master life extension, there will be a time when all four archetypes are equally active. Maybe that will be a golden age. But this might be stagnation. There is no rapid progress in a society ruled by centenarians.
I suspect that this would be the beginning of end of the currently understood cycle and the beginning of another as yet undetermined one. This is definitely outside our area of concern by a saeculum or two.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.