05-30-2021, 03:32 PM
(05-30-2021, 12:48 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Obviously rationalwiki tends to look for things to knock that don't fit their narrow worldview. Sometimes they may hit a target, but sometimes they miss. The clearly have no idea what the S&H generations/turning theory says, and they have no idea what a Crisis is, still less what an Awakening is, or what happened in the late sixties. Even the existence of an Awakening is itself beyond the scope of their narrow worldview.
Scary times don't all come in the same flavor. A Crisis is an exercise that will change the political and social structure of the country and even the world perhaps. An Awakening is the call to arms that won't be embraced for 20+ years. So why is the one urgent and present while the other is only engaging but not urgent? That seems to be the question being asked by rationalwiki, and the answer is actually rather simple. Ideas are ripe or they aren't. Crises are the fully ripe ideas that need resolution and they need it soon. Awakenings are less answers than questions. Are we resolving the questions asked in the last 2T? I would say yes and no. Yes, because we recognized the effects of the majority imposing itself on the minority. We didn't get that at the time -- not as a society at least. Do we now? I hope we do. Of course, other issues have intruded that are also urgent. We'll see how well we address the mall in the next few years.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.