11-30-2016, 09:35 AM
(11-29-2016, 04:13 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(11-29-2016, 03:33 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I tend to agree. 4Ts are not times when society comes together, but possibly one side gets it together enough to defeat the other side and set the consensus for the next saeculum. It had better be the progressive side, otherwise (barring foreign conquest like the allies achieved in 1945) we begin a rapid decline for the first time ever for the English-speaking world in a 4T. Which means there will have to be a dramatic turnaround in political power in the 2020s. I do still predict it to happen, based on MY reading of the cosmic indicators.
For the benefit of anandrajan, I'll just note that I have a different view: I believe that whatever side wins, that side is considered after the fact to be the one that represents progress.
Progress, perhaps, in the sense that metastasizing cancer is 'progress' -- if to death.
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.