04-19-2021, 10:26 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-19-2021, 10:35 PM by Eric the Green.)
(04-19-2021, 04:07 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(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.
Yes, and the many major problems that are at crisis levels, but not severe enough yet to stir up violence in the information age, might be addressed too.
Unfortunately, it will take more Democrats elected before this is likely to happen. Maybe a few more senators bold enough to bypass the filibuster, and keeping the House, will do it. So, patience indeed; on the part of millennials in Nov. 2022 who did not show it in 2010. Will they show it, and show up to vote Democratic in the 2022 midterms? That may tell the tale-- whether the Crisis can go well or not, or whether we fall into a hole from which we will not rise again, or not. The next one or two elections will decide which is the case. And victory over any armed resistance to the needed and achieved reforms, including gun control.
If progress does not win this decade, then we will not have an Awakening to speak of. Certainly not one that will accomplish what our current generations failed to do. Neo-liberalism cannot continue to dominate, after 40 years of its regression. Banana republics don't have Awakenings. Victory must happen in the 4T and recovery/high in the 1T first, as it always has in the anglo-american saeculum. An Awakening will not happen in a Classic Xer America.
A victory, however, does not mean that the progressive and blue/green side gets everything it wants. But IF we get enough done this decade, then more progress can be expected in the next 2T and 4T. And patience until then will be warranted.