09-22-2021, 04:57 PM
(09-21-2021, 12:58 PM)David Horn Wrote:(09-21-2021, 11:20 AM)tg63 Wrote: Long time lurker here - fwiw I find myself thinking of the theory far less than I used to - not sure why but I suspect the pandemic commands so much attention, and everything is unchartered territory - it feels like there are no patterns anymore - I'm not instinctively relating current events to the theory because nothing seems to fit anything.
But as I think about it maybe that's the way it's supposed to work ... the social response in a 4T must be one of urgency & action ... which seems to be the sentiment of the day - heck in 18 months we went form normal to pandemic to having vaccines in anyone's arms that want it ...
We all now are crying for things to return to normal, even if it's a different normal than what we had before. Plus we're so tired. Now that I think about it, that sounds kind of pre-1T ...
Yes, we're looking ahead to a 1T while trying to make our way through this 4T. I agree: maybe that's normal. I'm sure my parents felt the same as they tried to think of life after WW-II. Like them, we'll get a lot of it wrong.
It will get interesting again. Someone always dies so that the Obituaries thread gets a new entry.
No, I am not the Grim Reaper, who has been very busy 'taking care' of people foolish enough to not get inoculated.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.