05-22-2019, 05:46 PM
(05-21-2019, 11:04 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: As for Mr. Nobody Important, 4Ts are never resolved in favor of conservatives. Being a conservative, you do not have the right frame of mind to interpret the 4T or today's generations. What conservatives of today such as yourself think are "something better," are something worse.
True … and not. 4Ts get resolved by fresh thinking, and that can be hard to identify until it's right there in front of us. The new era will be totally different from the past in many ways, and all too familiar in others. We've never had to deal with AGW and technological displacement before, but Gilded Age politics and economics isn't anything new. And bad leaders? We've had them in abundance throughout history. Now, we need a plan to fix the new problems, and the old problems, while moving the world forward at the same time.
I agree, old ideas aren't going to cut it, and conservatives are nothing if not rooted in old paradigms. The bigger problem is which new ideas will work, how do we know that, and how are they implemented.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.