Generational Dynamics World View

[Bob Butler 54]

I support a series similar to John’s.  The WIERD thread projects one way of looking at it.  The Reformation, Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution, and the recent Cousin's Wars series of S&H crises seem the dominant thread.  Napoleon and several others of Great Britain’s former colonies form others.  Japan and West Germany joined with other threads after World War II.  

There were precursors to WEIRD before the printing press accelerated things.

(10-02-2020, 04:44 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: The West has had several potential Universal States. Spain at its peak seemed set on transforming England into a satellite state and restoring its domination of the Netherlands while Austria might become the dominant power in Germany. Napoleon held the whole of western Europe except Britain in his hands before his mad invasion of Russia. Wilhelm II's Germany was one decisive victory in 1918 from smashing France and becoming the dominant power in the West . Then came the Third Reich. Finally the Soviet Union suggested a willingness to break through the Fulda Gap and the Alps to sweep all the way to Gibraltar.

These are all military attempts by tribal thinkers to fight the main thread.  They were almost, significant attempts to stop the primary Anglo American mainline.  I would like to think they were doomed to fail, but they came all too close.