11-22-2018, 01:12 PM
OK, so the Crisis of the next saeculum typically begins about twenty years after the end of the Crisis of the previous Saeculum. "Four score and seven years ago" is the time from an early point in the crisis of the American Revolution and a comparatively late stage of the Civil War. People may not have known that the Civil War Crisis was about to end, but that was roughly a year and a half away. The Confederacy could survive events as horrid as Sherman severing it from Chattanooga through Atlanta to Savanna, but it would not be until the Battle of Petersburg that the Confederacy collapsed.
If any phase of the saecular cycle is likely to be short, it is the Crisis -- which is best for all. Sixteen years from the Crash of '29 to V-J Day is more than enough for anyone. The Civil War Crisis took nine nasty years to complete from the Panic of 1857 to Appomattox.
If any phase of the saecular cycle is likely to be short, it is the Crisis -- which is best for all. Sixteen years from the Crash of '29 to V-J Day is more than enough for anyone. The Civil War Crisis took nine nasty years to complete from the Panic of 1857 to Appomattox.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
