06-26-2021, 07:49 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-26-2021, 08:18 AM by Captain Genet.)
(06-24-2021, 10:52 AM)galaxy Wrote: good-ending 4T -> very powerful 1T (extremely peaceful, extremely conformist, etc) -> very powerful 2T (strong reaction against intensity of conformism) -> very powerful 3T (result of intense 2T) -> bad-ending 4T (society is too 3T-ish during 4T, failure to unify) -> weak 1T (more active, less conformist) -> weak 2T (just not as much to rebel against) -> weak 3T (society isn't quite so "awakened") -> good-ending 4T (society much more easily leaves the 3T behind).
Thoughts?
I'm definitely convinced.
With regard to the 2Ts:
super conformist 1Ts result in super individualistic, Bohemian 2Ts
weak 1Ts result in moralistic, Apollonian 2Ts since the 3T hedonism never really died down during 4T
(06-25-2021, 01:31 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: My suggestion is that Russia has never had a saeculum. It is just too primitive. A country in which the people never have any voice, nor any law other than tyranny, can scarcely have a saeculum.
You need to get over your anti-Russian racism. I'm familiar with Russian philosophy, poetry and cinema and they're anything but primitive, though I agree there is little interest in activism or political participation among the general public outside Moscow and Petersburg.
Quote:Whether that saeculum is suppressed by outside forces (for example, authoritarian rule, or Crises that arise from "outside the society" such as foreign invasions and natural disasters) is another matter.
I agree. Another exception can happen if the order established during the 4T is very weak, then the society returns to 4T mood before it can go 2T.