11-05-2020, 01:01 AM
(11-04-2020, 06:04 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: The theory suggests different moods, different styles of action. In the unravelling there is a lot of talk, compromise, arguing and stalemate. In the crisis there is a lot of effort to solve problems, and you let go of those values which cause problems. In the high, you worship the solutions that worked, suppress the values that caused the problems while building infrastructure.
One angle to look at the situation is that there are too many people fond of the old values so it is impossible to solve the problems. Biden can change the tone. Unless he has two houses of Congress backing him up, he can’t solve the problems alone.
A part of the problem is an unwillingness to compromise. We elected a black president. This resulted in a racist unwillingness to compromise. Apart from Obamacare, we have not moved much since. As things are looking, if the red continue this obstruction, the blue will be unable to get anything through congress, and the veto will prevent them from getting anything through congress. What results is like it or not a continuation of the unravelling. The problems don’t get solved.
That does not make a lot of sense. That seems the way we could be heading.
An answer would be to solve problems. What it would take is that on each issue a handful of red congressmen would have to care more about America than maintaining the party lockstep. On the blue side, it would take respecting red values and goals enough to not try to crush them. The unravelling mentality is to refuse to compromise. The crisis mentality is to solve problems, which seems to require compromise.
It means giving up the things the other guys want most in order to get what you want most.
One issue is the bug. We want a federal over reaching plan. We want to drive the bug down until we can test, trace and reopen the economy effectively. Is it possible to find a handful of Republican congressmen who want what is best for America?
One issue is racist violent policing. The reds blocked any federal solution. Do the reds want the protest and the looters, boogaloo boys, and militias to continue the violence, or will a handful of congress let go of the lockstep.
The founding fathers did not conceive of weapons that the people shouldn’t have. It is fairly obvious that there are some. Can we get rid of the justification phrase with its mention of the militia, make the individual right to bear civilian arms absolute and unquestionable, and distinguish military arms by such things as multi shots per trigger pull, power per shot and magazine size? Can we reach a reasonable compromise, or will the insistence on total extreme solutions mean the problem is left unsolved?
Trump would encourage violence. He saw it to his advantage to divide. Does anyone want that to become part of the culture? Can we agree that everybody should cut it out?
I could go on. One problem at a time. Start solving problems. If the culture of party obstruction being more important than America continues, the unraveling could effectively continue. If the extremists insist on total wins of their point of view, what we will get is deadlock.
I hope we start someday. I thought we would. The worst thing is the fires, floods and droughts. No-one is safe from these anymore, and they were in our power to stop. Now I'm not so sure. It is possible, given the planetary and other cycles I see, that just as the 3T mindset has continued into what is certainly a 4T, perhaps a 4T mindset will get some activism done during the 1T. Neptune only enters activist Aries and leaves escapist Pisces in 2025-26. By then and starting in about 2029 maybe things may get done during what is usually a period of recovery, stagnation, conformity and sometimes greed, but can also be a time of consensus, progress, building and accomplishment. Either we are just blowing it, which is very possible, and probably means a destroyed or much-diminished civilization on Earth, or we are just up to speed with the cycle.