09-05-2021, 02:36 PM
** 31-Aug-2021 World View: Civic unity in civil war
In the case of an internal civil war, the civic unity is split between
the two sides. What I mean by that is that previously, the two ethnic
groups will typically live together on friendly terms, often
side-by-side. The Regeneracy leads to civic unity within each side,
so that each side in the civil war is united behind that side's
leader.
The image that has stuck in my mind is that in 1984 Rwanda, the plane
crash was the major regeneracy event, and the Hutu leader broadcast
"Cut the tall trees down," referring to the taller Tutsis. Then,
according to some reports, a man would pick up a machete, and walk
next door to the home of the person with which he had previously been
friendly. He would kill and dismember the husband and children. Then
he'd rape the wife, and then dismember and kill her.
So there was civic unity among the Hutus and civic unity among the
Tutsis, but obviously not together.
Bob Butler" Wrote:> As I have thought about it more, any revolution or civil war will
> involved two or more aspects of a culture. Revolutions generally
> try to get rid of a flawed elite class, sometime supported by a
> colonial imperialist power, but favored by folks who get ahead
> through the existing arrangement. Civil wars involve even more
> clearly two aspects of the culture striving against one another.
> One generally supports the existing power structure, the other
> wishes to become more competitive.
> To the extent that Generational Dynamics focuses on crises that
> create unity it focuses on external threats and does not address
> internal struggles such as you see in any revolution or civil war.
> Such are hardly unique to the United States.
In the case of an internal civil war, the civic unity is split between
the two sides. What I mean by that is that previously, the two ethnic
groups will typically live together on friendly terms, often
side-by-side. The Regeneracy leads to civic unity within each side,
so that each side in the civil war is united behind that side's
leader.
The image that has stuck in my mind is that in 1984 Rwanda, the plane
crash was the major regeneracy event, and the Hutu leader broadcast
"Cut the tall trees down," referring to the taller Tutsis. Then,
according to some reports, a man would pick up a machete, and walk
next door to the home of the person with which he had previously been
friendly. He would kill and dismember the husband and children. Then
he'd rape the wife, and then dismember and kill her.
So there was civic unity among the Hutus and civic unity among the
Tutsis, but obviously not together.
