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What are your specialities?
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(09-24-2019, 08:06 AM)Ldr Wrote:
(09-24-2019, 05:48 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: ...the desire for justice and equal opportunity for all is caused by some other hormone condition than the fear of those who are different.

Actually, it is not, it's both oxytocin and vasopressin that (in excess) create instinctual desire for both flatter social hierarchy and xenophobia. If one is a "leftist/multiculturalist", then excess amount of these hormones causes one to hate the xenophobic groups of people. This two-sided dynamic was an element in the US Civil War (not to be debated here how much), and it clearly is an element today in the left vs. right polarized political climate in most Western nations. It all depends on what group/team/nation/tribe/village/ you belong to. One has to also remember that this behavior is in no way unique to humans, as other animal species also discriminate on the basis of one's appearance, hence the black sheep metaphors, which also accounts for behavior. This is why in a 4th turning the social norms tighten and those are shunned who do not comply with the new norms.


Look at all the revolutions that have happened during the 4th turnings. A revolution is often driven by a hate towards someone who is seen an oppressor, be it a monarch or a democratically elected leader, which is why during a 4th turning, as the social hierarchy is flatter, these revolution and such often come about. As for UK/US, the Glorious revolution happened just as a 4th turning was about to begin (high oxytocin levels), and the American Revolutionary War and Civil War took place during 4th turnings. Chapter 3 shows that Europe has seen much of the same, as most major European revolutions have happened during the late 3rd turning or 4th turning. The generational hormone theory's hormone levels fits all of these events.

Most revolutions start in or begin a 4T in the country in question whether in America in 1776 or Germany in 1933. Revolutions are rare in healthy societies with solid economies. Economic distress makes people less patient about leaders that might get away with more in better times. Social division may result from old cultural rifts that the overall society managed to gloss over for decades only to turn into civil war (Spain in the 1930's, Yugoslavia in the 1990's). A country in which many people live for all purposes in the time of Velazquez and many others live for all practices in the time of Picasso has dangerous contradictions.  Political life is far trickier in a Crisis Era than in other times in the saeculum. Get bad economic conditions and incompetent or corrupt government, and all sorts of things are possible -- most of them bad.

Americans, even those who have no idea of the generational theory, recognize that they live in a dangerous time... and they do everything possible (in most cases) to prevent a splintering of society. To be sure, people will not be blackmailed into giving up their freedom and prosperity, let alone hope for themselves and progeny, just to get a little temporary safety. To be sure, our economic and administrative elites include some thoroughly-rotten people who would be perfectly happy to take everything and commit the rest of us to poverty and fear with only such compensation as vague promises of "pie in the sky when you die".

We do not know what this Crisis will have as its focus, let alone how it will culminate and what aftermath it will leave. It is easy to see an Abraham Lincoln or FDR as exactly what we need... but that is exactly what some Americans want the rest of us to believe about Donald Trump. (I see Trump as a near-antithesis of what we need).
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.


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What are your specialities? - by Ldr - 09-02-2019, 08:36 AM
RE: What are your specialities? - by Ldr - 09-03-2019, 05:43 AM
RE: What are your specialities? - by Ldr - 09-03-2019, 11:39 AM
RE: What are your specialities? - by Ldr - 09-05-2019, 04:14 AM
RE: What are your specialities? - by sbarrera - 09-05-2019, 07:22 AM
RE: What are your specialities? - by pbrower2a - 09-05-2019, 09:42 AM
RE: What are your specialities? - by pbrower2a - 09-06-2019, 07:08 AM
RE: What are your specialities? - by Ldr - 09-06-2019, 08:31 AM
RE: What are your specialities? - by Hintergrund - 09-06-2019, 08:37 AM
RE: What are your specialities? - by Ldr - 09-06-2019, 09:19 AM
RE: What are your specialities? - by pbrower2a - 09-07-2019, 06:53 PM
RE: What are your specialities? - by Hintergrund - 09-09-2019, 05:04 AM
RE: What are your specialities? - by pbrower2a - 09-09-2019, 08:17 AM
RE: What are your specialities? - by David Horn - 09-09-2019, 09:44 AM
RE: What are your specialities? - by Hintergrund - 09-10-2019, 06:34 PM
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RE: What are your specialities? - by Ldr - 09-08-2019, 07:18 AM
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RE: What are your specialities? - by Ldr - 09-09-2019, 02:34 AM
RE: What are your specialities? - by Ldr - 09-09-2019, 09:39 AM
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RE: What are your specialities? - by Ldr - 09-09-2019, 01:38 PM
RE: What are your specialities? - by Ragnarök_62 - 09-09-2019, 02:04 PM
RE: What are your specialities? - by Ldr - 09-09-2019, 02:14 PM
RE: What are your specialities? - by David Horn - 09-09-2019, 03:09 PM
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RE: What are your specialities? - by Ldr - 09-10-2019, 04:53 AM
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RE: What are your specialities? - by Ldr - 09-20-2019, 02:26 AM
RE: What are your specialities? - by pbrower2a - 09-20-2019, 03:44 AM
RE: What are your specialities? - by Ldr - 09-20-2019, 07:48 AM
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RE: What are your specialities? - by Ldr - 09-24-2019, 08:06 AM
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RE: What are your specialities? - by Ldr - 09-29-2019, 06:43 AM
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RE: What are your specialities? - by beechnut79 - 09-29-2019, 03:27 PM
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RE: What are your specialities? - by Ldr - 10-05-2019, 11:26 AM
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RE: What are your specialities? - by Ldr - 10-09-2019, 01:56 AM
RE: What are your specialities? - by Ldr - 10-09-2019, 02:51 AM
RE: What are your specialities? - by Ldr - 09-25-2019, 12:56 AM
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RE: What are your specialities? - by Ldr - 10-11-2019, 09:33 AM
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RE: What are your specialities? - by Ldr - 10-18-2019, 04:17 AM
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