Generational Dynamics World View

[Bob Butler 54]

(05-27-2020, 10:45 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(05-26-2020, 11:34 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(05-26-2020, 10:21 AM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: Well, maybe I'm stubborn, but this isn't a political or ideological issue.  To the contrary, I've examined thousands of generational events going back thousands of years, and I haven't noticed any differences in the way that generational eras change in different ages.

I would go with stubborn.

Look at the fourth column in the properties of cultures of the era, the form of government.  It goes from tribal chiefs, to a semi hereditary warrior / landowning class, to elected officials.  If  I’m guessing right, in the Information Age we will eventually when we solve the security problem go to direct vote network democracy so the representatives stop identifying with the elites...

I hope not!  We have too few capable of understanding and addressing complex problems to assign that as another DIY Project for the People.  We already have the white working class, one step above the poor, aligning with the elites, because those folks one step down need to stay there.

I do anticipate early teething pains.  However, in the US the Senate has two biases.  The first is the pro slavery bias giving more power to the rural states.  The second is the bias of representative government towards the elites.  The first step might be replacing the senate with a direct democracy veto.  The hope is that if the House doesn't try to do anything egregious, it would hopefully not have to be used often, but any benefits to corporations or the elites might get stepped on.

Cuomo in today''s bug press conference went on a bit about how in order to get a senators vote, you quite often have to give something to that senator's state.  As a result, most bills are full of pork.  There is no sense of passing a bill because it is right.  That is why Alaska wound up getting way more relief per case in the virus bill than New York.  It was about the pork rather than the need.

Still too soon to do much more than daydream.