Well, I'm back

[David Horn]

(01-22-2018, 11:05 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: ... But if boom times impel the Republicans to stay in power, and rule over times that become relaxed and complacent with the national divide just fading away into a new and successful gilded age, then I think the cycle of the saeculum has ended. The 4T would have been a brief dud in 2008-2010. There is no 1T without a 4T; there would be no way to characterize such a prospect within the saeculum paradigm. The pattern would simply not hold. But all the cosmic signs and the demographics militate against this happening. The cosmic signs may not always be easy to read, but on this point they seem unambiguous. We have severe conflicts ahead in the 2020s, and vigorous new departures for our country-- or what's left of it.

We're entering the second Age following the Industrial. That alone is enough to change the tenor of things. But that doesn't mean that we're at the end of history, merely shifting to a new paradigm. We still have issues that need to be solved, and some are moving to the critical stage. The real question: do they get resolved in this 4T period or merely delayed until the next 2T or longer? Intellectually, I'm open to either, but emotionally I'd prefer seeing the issues resolved sooner than later.

I don't always get my wish.