08-19-2021, 08:46 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-19-2021, 08:54 AM by Eric the Green.)
(07-26-2021, 06:58 AM)Anthony Wrote: I have always maintained - and still do - that 1998/99 is the boundary - because '98ers would have at least some hazy memory of 9/11, which ended the Pax Americana that began when the Berlin Wall came down - while '99ers would not.
David Hogg (who I can't stand) and Greta Thunberg will be listed as "Sample Living Members" of what I have dubbed "The Activist Generation" when Generations: Volume 2 comes out.
Those two heroes of mine, whom I love, show the activist nature of the tail-end of the Millennial Generation. Much like the sub-generation of JFK and Nelson Mandela. The entire Millennial generation will have to step up now and lead, follow or get out of the way. Being civics, they all have the potential. The Crisis 4T that started in 2008 is ramping up toward its climax in circa 2025-27. Consciousness of the climate crisis ramped up about a year earlier with Al Gore's movie. But people often forget that gas prices also skyrocketed in 2008, which also put the climate crisis on the front burner that year, plus the huge oil spill in 2010. Since then, the climate crisis has ramped up, and now the UN has declared that we face it now or face oblivion. Both David Hogg and Greta Thunberg are heroes of the regeneracy that started with resistance to Trump in 2017.
The back-to-normal war on terror of 2001 just made sure that the Pax Americana's continuing constant-war since 1941 continued-- out of sight and out of mind. In the 4T, the war on terror may well re-appear at the crisis climax, just as the 3T's world war one reappeared in the 4T world war two. This time, the USA will do it right. Full mobilization, with limited aims; a true war on the terrorists; not a hopeless nation-building.
At least, that is my expectation. I assume a world full mobilization to wipe out tyranny in several places could occur as well, and possible world war against the tyrants. That would be very dangerous and deadly, and perhaps Butler is right that the world has moved beyond such world conflicts, although obviously it has not moved beyond the tyranny of the most-ancient agricultural-age kinds. Maybe more terrorist attacks from Afghanistan won't happen either; we'll see. But the USA war cycles will return in 2025, and that will be hard to avoid entirely.