08-18-2021, 10:41 PM
(08-18-2021, 04:02 PM)nguyenivy Wrote:(08-17-2021, 05:07 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 16-Aug-2021 World View: Regeneracy event
Guest Wrote:> John, given the universal shock/outrage over Afghanistan, could
> this be the regeneracy event? Or is an attack on the homeland
> absolutely necessary?
No, absolutely not. Believe me, when an ACTUAL regeneracy event
occurs, you won't have to ask.
Should the COVID-19 pandemic being declared in March 2020 be considered at least the start of the regeneracy? The big thing I think it's doing even still now is getting everyone to evaluate their lives all around. While we have vaccines and they are working, it seems it's not fast enough to stop the momentum of what changed before the vaccines, like remote working for one. Recent news articles been changing their tune to 'living with COVID' and it overall becoming more of a long-term thing rather than the temporary crisis it was thought to be in its 1st year.
The problem is that so many Americans still look at things as either Business as Usual ... or think "Damn the Virus! Full speed ahead! Much of America has re-examined its values, its ways of doing things, and its understanding of how the world works. Much has yet to do so. Sure, the world will be much as some trends showed before the Crisis Era. Cars of 1940 already looked more like cars of 1955 than like those of 1935, and spending habits beginning in the late 1930's began to look much like those of the early 1950's. Still, the world of 1950 would be very dissimilar from that of 1920. Commie rule would extend far beyond the Soviet Union (which annexed much territory that it held onto until its collapse in 1990-1991) from Eisenach to Hanoi. Because of the Holocaust, the world's Jewish population was halved, reducing a religious tradition more noteworthy for intellectual activity and influence than for sheer numbers. Fascism was discredited once and for all in all countries that had been major participants in WWII except for Greece, which underwent the Colonels' regime for less than a decade. Colonial rule showed how costly colonial rule could be for so few benefits as Burma, Malaya, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Indochina all came quickly under the rule of what might have been one of the most impressive empires to have ever existed (the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere) had it lasted several decades (in which case it might have also incorporated Alaska and Hawaii and a huge chunk of China).
The collapse of a seedy and shady regime in Afghanistan shows how quickly history can move in a 4T. I expect the worst from the Taliban because the vilest regimes typically have the greatest tendency to see their monstrous ways as the dream of the rest of the world. Ask yourself in contrast when you last heard of Swiss militarism. Much of the world's population would like to have Swiss-style politics and economics.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
