Generational Dynamics World View

[Bob Butler 54]

(08-11-2020, 06:47 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: Lol.  You claim to be defending S&H theory, but instead you're rejecting S&H theory and instead you're defending some made-up theory about arrows of progress that exists only in your mind, and bears no resemblance to generational theory.  That's your business, but you aren't defending S&H theory at all.

Once again, I'm the only remaining member of the FT forum who believes that generational theory is valid.

If by valid you mean that the original principles can stand without being changed and by making further checks against reality, you may be correct.  I prefer to check against reality and edit the theory to eliminate the parts which are obviously no longer applicable.

If one tries to learn from books on ages of civilization, books showing the differences between civilizations, books covering how hunter - gatherer cultures and species act, books covering recent history….  There is a lot of stuff out there.  If you lock into one perspective above all others and wipe anything from other perspectives from your mind, you come up with absurdities.

By the way, I also make it a point to check spirals of violence.  Before you get to a crisis war, there is generally escalating rhetoric then violence that eventually builds up to a full scale conflict.  It is part of the idea that one should check one’s theory against reality.  You are hardly the only person obsessed with violence that has clung to the violence that occurred in prior ages as if it will continue in the current age.  Some people are sick and cling to the old ways of looking at things.