11-19-2017, 01:44 PM
(11-16-2017, 10:50 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: So now returning to the distinction between external and internal
wars, the Awakening eras of different countries are quite different.
The spiritual awakening described by the Fourth Turning may occur in
America and Britain, but it certainly does not occur in the other
countries we've been discussing, the ones that fought tribal or ethnic
internal civil wars. In those countries, an Awakening era is a time
of government oppression, jailings and torture, in order to suppress
the other tribe or ethnic group.
I question how different it is. There was plenty of government oppression and jailing in the US in and around the awakening era in response to civil rights and antiwar demonstrations. I'd suggest we have to wait until these countries get well into the unravelling era to see if there's anything fundamentally different.
