10-27-2021, 11:35 AM
** 26-Oct-2021 World View: Generational Theory and Fatalism on personal and generational levels
When I write about generational theory, I usually talk about crisis
wars or crisis eras or the 58-year rule, and so forth.
However, there are core concepts in generational theory that are
very deep, and were well understood in Biblical times.
One more thing: I said that understanding generational theory does not
end well. King Solomon said the same thing in Ecclesiastes: "For in
much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth
sorrow."
I hope that answers your question. Navigator asked me a similar
question in March of last year, and I responded with a video of Judy
Collins and the Rainbow Connection, with particular attention to the
last verse:
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrakVGeTi14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrakVGeTi14
If you do nothing else tonight, just sit back and listen to the
beautiful Judy Collins singing The Rainbow Connection, and think about
what you're s'posed to be.
(Above was updated to include another quote from Ecclesiastes.)
tim Wrote:> You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord
> your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin
> of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who
> hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those
> who love me and keep my commandments.
> Exodus 20:5
> John,
> What are your thoughts? The Fourth Turning was spoke of long
> before Strauss and Howe created their theory.
When I write about generational theory, I usually talk about crisis
wars or crisis eras or the 58-year rule, and so forth.
However, there are core concepts in generational theory that are
very deep, and were well understood in Biblical times.
- Generational theory is extremely fatalistic, on the
generational level, and even on the personal level.
- Catastrophes must happen at regular intervals.
- One reason they occur is that generations forget, and "Those who
cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it!"
- Another reason is that the population grows exponentially faster
than the amount of food and other resources, so a war of extermination
must occur at regular intervals.
- Moses must have understood generational concepts when he foresaw
that he would lead his people out of Egypt in the Exodus.
- Later, Solomon had a profound grasp of generational theory,
probably strongly influenced by his knowledge of the Exodus. As he
writes in Ecclesiastes: "1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that
which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done:
and there is no new thing under the sun. 1:10 Is there any thing
whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old
time, which was before us. 1:11 There is no remembrance of former
things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to
come with those that shall come after."
- I just have to repeat, the three verses just quoted are
exceptionally deep and profound, and form part of the core
of generational theory.
- Jeremiah must have been deeply affected by the words of Solomon,
and he could see in real time the generational changes that would lead
to disaster, which allowed him to predict with certainty the
destruction of Jerusalem.
- Next, we move to fatalism on the personal level.
- The most obvious Biblical example is that Jesus knew that he would
be betrayed, and that he would have to die. I can only speculate how
this came about. I assume that as a young boy he was familiar with
the Old Testament and the teachings of Moses, Solomon, Jeremiah, and
others. He might well have foreseen the destruction of Jerusalem in
the same way that Jeremiah did. But while Jeremiah was punished by
being thrown into a pit, Jesus caused a split in the population
between his followers (the Jews) and his enemies (the Romans). I
won't attempt to carry this analysis out any further, but somehow
Jesus foresaw not on the big picture of what was happening (the
destruction of the temple in Jerusalem) and his own role in it.
- Personally, of course I knew nothing about generational theory
when I was young. But I look back at what I studied and read in high
school, college and later, and I see them all as being pieces in a
jigsaw puzzle of my life that led me to generational theory. I
believe that Generational Dynamics was my destiny, in the fatalistic
sense. And it hasn't ended well for me, just as understanding
generational theory didn't end well for Jeremiah, Jesus or Winston
Churchill.
- What all of us have in common is that what we believe and how we
behave for our entire lives depends on our childhood. To take one
obvious example, why does one person become a Christian, another
become a Jew, another become a Muslim, another a Hindu? Obviously it
depends on their childhood. But I go a lot farther, and claim that
many behaviors and attitudes from out childhood influence us, both
positively and negatively, for our entire lives.
- I'll give one more example. When Joe Biden was a child, he grew
up in the Democrat party culture that was still lynching young blacks
via the KKK, and where Democrats were still bitterly angry that they
had failed to destroy the Union in the Civil War. The Democrats,
especially Biden's mentor Robert Byrd, were also bitterly opposed to
the Republicans' Civil Rights law of 1964, and when that passed it was
like losing the Civil War to the Republicans all over again.
- The Democrats' slogan when Biden was a child was "The South
Shall Rise Again!", meaning that there would be a new Civil
War, and the Democrats would win this one and reinstate slavery.
- Today, Biden has the chance to fulfill his childhood dream. In
one policy area after another -- the border, Afghanistan, street
crime, Covid, and so forth -- every policy weakens or destroys
something in the United States. Not a single one strengthens the
United States. Biden knows that he's running out of time since the
2022 elections are coming, so he's rushing to destroy as much of the
country as he can, while he can. Let's go, Brandon!
One more thing: I said that understanding generational theory does not
end well. King Solomon said the same thing in Ecclesiastes: "For in
much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth
sorrow."
I hope that answers your question. Navigator asked me a similar
question in March of last year, and I responded with a video of Judy
Collins and the Rainbow Connection, with particular attention to the
last verse:
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrakVGeTi14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrakVGeTi14
Quote:Have you been half asleep and have you heard voices?
I've heard them calling my name.
Is this the sweet sound that calls the young sailors?
The voice might be one and the same.
I've heard it too many times to ignore it.
It's something that I'm s'posed to be.
Somewhere we'll find it, the Rainbow Connection,
The lovers, the dreamers and me.
If you do nothing else tonight, just sit back and listen to the
beautiful Judy Collins singing The Rainbow Connection, and think about
what you're s'posed to be.
(Above was updated to include another quote from Ecclesiastes.)
