We Need Militant Nationalism

[Classic-Xer]

(07-18-2017, 12:23 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(07-17-2017, 10:39 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(07-17-2017, 10:16 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: We may shift to that, but in our saeculum, scarity economics still rules the roost, and has recently taken over the country. The unravelling memes in power the last (and current) 40 years period have seen to it that whatever prosperity may happen in a dawning information or green age is not distributed equally or fairly, but captured by the elites who run the system for their own benefit and wealth. So we are in an industrial age crisis this cycle, because it may be a crisis in which a transition to an information age saeculum takes place. That is, IF the progressive side wins because the millennials will have stepped up to the plate, as they haven't done yet.

The reason the saeculum cycles are less firm in other countries is that they have gradually blended with the anglo-american one, as the new world culture has developed. Other Western countries were already running almost parallel, since The West was a common culture going back millennia. Sometimes, when people forget or ignore that we are one world civilization now, as of the last 120 years or so, this confuses peoples' view of the cycles.

We aren't even close to being a one world civilization. How many belief systems still exist in the world? How many languages? How many religions? How many cultures? Are we down to just one or even close to one?????  I don't think so.

Ha ha! We have all of that just in our own country. All countries are becoming multi-national and multi-ethnic now. Borders are falling, no matter how upset you Trump voters are over this. No, we can't be separated. We trade with all the world, and so does everyone else. Media, culture, transportation, the internet, cross all boundaries. We in the USA learn from all the world's traditions and histories. Many of us are as fully influenced by Buddhism and Hinduism and its arts as we are by Christian and Jewish traditions. The world's nations are all moving toward freedom, democracy and socialism, slowly but surely. And toward green economics and technology too. The environmental crisis knows no boundaries. And neither do economic crises; nor markets. And wars elsewhere affect our lives here. No, we are one civilization, and have been for over a century; and you can feel it humming. We are one humanity, and we have passed the point of no return on that.

I know, Mr. X_84 says we need militant nationalism. And there's some truth in that; we don't want a one world nation without some good local representation and local interests too. The USA has some good ideals, although now they belong to everyone else too. And there are still bad guys, just as there are criminals, and security systems are needed to deal with them. One world civilization does not mean automatically that world peace has been achieved. Anymore than the existence of "Western Civilization" meant that western nations didn't fight each other.

True, I've seen a lot of countries fall apart over the years. I expect to see more nations fall apart & divide during the rest of my lifetime as well.