05-05-2022, 12:58 AM
(05-04-2022, 06:10 AM)JasonBlack Wrote: Imo, the biggest sign of an empire dying is that so many people seem to want it to die. Don't get me wrong, I've been relatively non-interventionist since I can remember, but Trump's "Make America Great Again" rhetoric caught on for a reason: America has become a culture that has given up, a culture that just wants it all to be over. No longer does anyone have a desire for us to be great, for us to be prosperous, for us to be strong.
It is the part of America proud to be white that is on the decline. Anyone proud to be white is proud of something worthless. Proud of a specific heritage? Sure... that's fine. A Czech-American proud of the Czech musical heritage is on solid ground. Someone who thinks that Dvorak is great because he is white is a fool.
Quote:In this fight, the millennials are really failing in their hero role and acting a lot more like their adaptive next juniors. The hero generation is supposed to begin tilting the scale back from the over-femininity of the hyper-emotional 2T and consumptive/solipsistic 3T and toward a more masculine sense of vigor, drive, organization and courage. On some level, we have realized this, and I'm hoping for a kind of better-late-than never swing toward trying to do something about this, but I am not optimistic.
Women can be as chilly rationalists as men, and they can fight back. Just think of what the word "bitch" means when applied rightly to a female dog. Do something screwy around her puppies, and you stand to be hurt badly. Pussycat? Sure. Years ago my dog and I once saw a dachshund stalk a mother cat with kittens. The cat turned around and sent the dachshund back yelping in pain. I'm not sure that I can read canine expressions, but my dog (who knew enough to treat that cat with some respect) looked back at me with an expression that suggested the canine equivalent of "What a schmnuck!"
Remember well that the people who shaped the Boom Awakening are largely gone now, and few of those tried to resurrect it after it faded out.
The completed 3T was a time of elite and middle-class consumption with a continuing burden upon not-so-well-off people who were treated and paid badly at work. The shopping-mall culture is dead.
The fault this time is that special interests have sought to maintain the worst aspects of the 3T long into the Crisis Era, which is a disaster in itself. We should be trending toward 1T practices already this late in the Crisis Era -- but we aren't.
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.