01-28-2017, 02:09 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-28-2017, 02:30 PM by John J. Xenakis.)
(01-28-2017, 12:44 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: > Those are all different regions on their own timelines. The
> collapse of the Soviet Union was not brought about by a Crisis
> climax; it was brought about by an Awakening climax. The Vietnam
> War was a "crisis" for America, but there was no Regeneracy and no
> Climax.
(01-28-2017, 01:11 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: > The collapse of the Soviet Union was an Awakening? How did we jump
> to turning #5, then?
The Awakening era is characterized by a political clash between the
crisis war survivor generations and the generations growing up after
the war. The Awakening climax decides the inter-generational victors
and losers. It can occur during the Awakening era (resignation of
Nixon), or it can occur later (Glorious Revolution, Weimar collapse,
Tiananmen Square massacre, Soviet Union collapse). The words "Velvet
Coup" or "Velvet Revolution" are often used to describe the event
because there's relatively little violence.
An Awakening era creates a horizontal split in the population --
generation vs generation. A Crisis era creates a vertical split --
religion vs religion, ethnic group vs ethnic group, etc. The climax
in each case determines a victor, but in the case of the Crisis
climax, it comes after maximum genocidal violence that's so horrific
that the survivors enter a First Turning again.
