Looking Toward The Next High

[TheNomad]

(05-23-2018, 11:44 AM)tg63 Wrote: I personally question the notion that the Boomers will start giving up power in 5 years or so. In 5 years they will range between 63-80. With improved health (compared with past saeculums) and with the benefits of technology, I think they will hang on to power as long as they can, and that will be much beyond age 63. They won't go without a fight.

And that will give them loads of time to make reactionary decisions (or to continue to), that we are left to deal with for a very long time.

I can see that POV.  They are maybe too young to exit.  HOWEVER at the same time we must look at the ages and position of the youngers.  Nomads are beginning to retire.  Do you realize that?  Heroes are beginning to establish themselves in the workforce and in public life.  Artists are already teenagers.  How much longer can Disaster last in this scenario? 

I recognize cycles have gone long in the past and even skipped archetypes.  Then I also look at the past and I see everything the authors have envisioned has happened.  We had a great war.  We had a financial crisis.  That stuff has happened.  A nomad assumed the presidency with support of the prophets already.

To me, I can see it both ways.  I am hopeful of my view, but can accept the other view of a longer cycle.  I am only really starting to think trump is an aberration from the cycle and the republican/right/neocon is going to be evacuated soon.  That doesn't mean they are not still around.  It just mean their wad has been blown already.  We have to look at the cycles for what they are.  The estimated events and actions and repercussions may have already happened.

I was watching some reality show from the 90s.  The kid was traveling to europe and his dad was like "they have bombers and terrorists there NOT LIKE HERE".  If someone was an adult in the 90s in America, they can understand what has changed and how our civilization was altered by 911.  Then just a few years later the financial crisis.... where a nomad was thrown out in front of the country to explain what happened and ask for everyone's patience blah blah.  We had children (artists) born in that period who never knew life NOT in a crisis.

I could go on and on.  I see ALREADY so many things from the model already having happened.  WORD FOR WORD.