04-19-2021, 04:07 PM
(04-19-2021, 12:39 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: 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.
Part of it is obstruction. Yes, conservatives are generally unwilling to deal with big issues, but the recent obstruction made it difficult to address anything. If the filibuster is neutered or destroyed, if the Republican senators decide that helping the people is more important than screwing up progress, then many minor problems which have not risen to the crisis level might be solved too.
But more patience seems to be required.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.