Generational Dynamics World View

[Bob Butler 54]

(11-04-2020, 05:26 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(11-03-2020, 03:37 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: So you admit that you knew it was genocide, but you still think it's perfectly ok anyway.  I guess I'm still obsessed with the old way of thinking that ideological genocide, ethnic cleansing, torture, rape and mass slaughter are wrong.

I know that I'm out of date, and I'm not blessed like you with the modern way of thinking that genocide is perfectly OK if it's in the service of a bloody, brutal Communist dictatorship.  You certainly are very modern, and you fit in very well with the morals of today's Democratic Party.

To be fair, that's what happens in a Crisis era, is it not?  Does generational dynamics say whether both sides end up eventually adopting this attitude, or can it be only one side?  I presume if it's only one side, it's the side that wins.

It was what happened in the Industrial Age, when everybody assumed a crisis war was necessary to institute change, when tribal thinking was pretty much universal.  With nukes and proxy wars making violence of questionable wisdom, another pattern is developing.  Still, as long as you stick with minor powers, the questionable wisdom of tribal thinking works sort of, once everyone forgets what happened last time, more genocide, ethnic cleansing, torture, rape and mass slaughter.  I just think there are better alternatives than more tribal thinking.