02-27-2017, 12:20 PM
(02-26-2017, 04:50 PM)Mikebert Wrote: ... In all of the previous social moments, we have had the luxury of knowing when they ended. This helps enormously in putting down dates. Although I would like to believe that Obama's election was the start of something that is not yet over, maybe I am wrong and it never was anything, just a false hope.
Even at that, we are still disputing the ACW crisis era, and that was pretty clear cut in comparison to today. We haven't suffered anything that qualifies as an existential threat, so it's all up for grabs. That may be a blessing we shouldn't discount too quickly.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.