04-19-2021, 12:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-19-2021, 12:43 PM by Eric the Green.)
(04-19-2021, 09:59 AM)David Horn Wrote:(04-18-2021, 07:04 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(04-18-2021, 01:13 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Awakenings are more about culture and spirit than civics. I am not sympathetic to idea that solutions will come up in the next Awakening. That just means that our generations are abdicating their place in the action, especially boomers. Our time is not past. Our time is now. It is not a virtue for us to "get out of the way." Blue Boomers: Speak up!
Late Silent John Lewis spoke up, stood up and made good trouble right to the end of his life. We can do no less.
I just don't see it at the crisis level yet. Strides might be taken. I see with crisis wars becoming more rare, awakenings will take on a greater role. We'll see.
I agree. If not for COVID, this Crisis era would not have lived up to former expectations - and that's not for lack of other pressing issues. The pace of change is so fast now that concepts tend to be dealt-with immediately or they fall into the background noise. Will that mean that 2Ts will now be the home to social and political change engines? I guess we'll know soon enough.
We will indeed, and what we'll see is that this decade is going to get hotter, with or without a crisis war, foreign or domestic. If 2Ts become the home of social and political change engines, then the cycle will flip and 4Ts will become home to spiritual and cultural change engines. The balance of actual life continues. I say 2Ts will not become 4Ts, and 4Ts will not become 2Ts, just because we were cowards and failed to fulfill our proper role in this 4T. We either fulfill our role in this 4T, or for the first time our 4T fails, and the USA becomes a banana republic with a very weak and meaningless saeculum cycle-- which is a huge turning wheel that only exists because there is forward progress. It is a hurricane, and without the warm water of human aspiration to feed it, it will become a tropical storm and fade away.
Our neo-liberal 3T actually did slow it down, and that may be a sign of future failure in this hurricane. But perhaps it is only the sign of the cosmic cycles, which ebb and flow.