04-22-2022, 01:56 AM
Could it be that a 4T is not only a potential cataclysm, but also a transition within a larger community from one in which 3T characteristics fade out or get wrung out and 1T characteristics form or get adopted? If the 3T ends in unmitigated failure, as was so in the last completed 4T, then little gets in the way of needed reforms and the needful change of national character? A 3T ends as a time of corruption and depravity, with unsustainable assumptions about economics and politics?
Polarization remains a reality in American politics, and America remains in hostile and exclusive camps, Compromise is unlikely if not impossible. On one side one will break and the other will prevail. It is unlikely that we will have liberal values on sexuality but greater equity on economics or vice-versa; we will either get a pure plutocracy with an ethnic hierarchy enshrined along with harsh rules favoring macho, heterosexual dominance. I can imagine the demand that evolution be scrapped in favor of young-earth creationism because some feelings are more precious than scientific truth,
The ideal response to a 4T is reasoned, just,equitable, and regimented. Good habits erplace bad ones, and the results are the best possible,
Polarization remains a reality in American politics, and America remains in hostile and exclusive camps, Compromise is unlikely if not impossible. On one side one will break and the other will prevail. It is unlikely that we will have liberal values on sexuality but greater equity on economics or vice-versa; we will either get a pure plutocracy with an ethnic hierarchy enshrined along with harsh rules favoring macho, heterosexual dominance. I can imagine the demand that evolution be scrapped in favor of young-earth creationism because some feelings are more precious than scientific truth,
The ideal response to a 4T is reasoned, just,equitable, and regimented. Good habits erplace bad ones, and the results are the best possible,
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.