We are getting old.

[Warren Dew]

(09-27-2016, 02:05 PM)taramarie Wrote:

(09-27-2016, 09:24 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(09-26-2016, 03:06 AM)taramarie Wrote: I am unfamiliar with the aftermath of the civil war so I do not know how things were patched up after it.

There were a couple decades of "reconstruction", during which carpetbaggers from the north went south to lord it over southerners.  Then southern whites regained power and we got the institutionalized racism that lasted from the late 19th century to 1960 or so.  Basically there was no patching up, just continued disagreement with one side winning at a time.

Ah yeah just as i thought. That explains a lot and I do think this time around under Dionysian power, like back during the civil war times nothing will truly be settled. Not until much later.

I see it a little differently:  reconstruction was the "high", and was just fine for the North and for the carpetbaggers, just as the most recent "high" was just fine for the U.S. and for American GIs in Europe.  Then reconstruction was abandoned during the Missionary awakening, allowing the South to reassert itself just as Japan reasserted itself during the Boomer awakening.

(09-27-2016, 02:05 PM)taramarie Wrote: The little ones of today will begin the healing.

Those that survive, yes.