Generational Dynamics World View

[Bob Butler 54]

(05-08-2020, 07:24 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: So if Covid-19 were to kill off enough people, it could replace a Crisis war?

You could argue that Boomers and possibly other subsequent generations were traumatized emotionally by the thought of the potential sudden destruction and death by nukes.  Otherwise they might have logically and rationally decided not to support politicians who thought to initiate a crisis war.  Similarly, Bush 43’s wars left America very hesitant to put boots on the ground.  There may be already, without a crisis war, a commitment to avoiding war that could last while the people who remember Bush 43’s time are still alive and in power.  As questionable as the blues think the Bush 43 administration was, we might have received quite a gift.

So while GD might be a decent approach to understanding the Industrial Age, the same factors that shifted us to the Information Age may well have shifted the cycles at the heart of GD.

But COVID 19 could teach us to abhor political fantasies where you avoid the science.  This is one of the things debated during the unravelling and early crisis.  If this habit of avoiding the science is eventually firmly rejected by much of the electorate, the blue world view could become dominant.  The long debated values shift could take place.  In that sense COVID 19 can be a trigger of the values change.