The Coronavirus

[Bob Butler 54]

(03-28-2020, 01:33 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Nor can we change the red opinions that you hold....

Yup, lots of people are unreachable..... some men you just can't reach. What we've got here is, failure to communicate.

I like to think I can change, but admittedly it is against reality rather the in debates on this and similar sites.  

For example, a month or three ago, I was beginning to believe there would be no Trigger Event and no Crisis coming before the Boomers entirely aged out.  Why?  The major powers were fighting proxy wars not crisis wars.  More was being done with legislation in the Awakening rather than with war in the Crisis.  I was working towards the High or the Awakening being transformational in the Industrial Age.  Without the trauma of a Crisis War effecting the parents child rearing style, the new generation of Artists would not grow up traumatized and thus might not follow the S&H pattern.  All of this was against S&H theory.  It was not how it went in the Industrial Age.  It might be the pattern in the Information Age…

Then I tentatively identified the Coronavirus as the trigger.  The Regeneracy, the changes in values to respond to the Coronavirus would indeed sell the blue values.  The continued following of the red Republican old values would cause massive deaths.  This is the type of blunt force hit em on the head sort of thing that makes even the most stubborn people accept the new values.  It could bring people less extreme to tip the balance.

It could not change everyone.  My boss’s brother had an odd gift.  He had an ability to pick up accents, and thus could speak German as a native and pass as a local.  One trip to a European ski resort he made friends with a few locals, and during one break between ski runs his companion made a pertinent comment.  “We should have killed more Jews when we had the chance.”  We did not destroy the old fascist values.  We just submerged them.  We blocked them from surfacing again, made it impossible for them to be made government policy again.  We made the Germans pretend, some of them.  People are that stubborn in clinging to their values.

Think Atlanta in 1864 or Berlin in 1944.  This is the sort of massive death that it takes to cause a major values change.  My poor attempts at debating clearly cannot match what happened to Atlanta or Berlin.  There is something about fire, destruction and death.

And of course the existence of the Trigger and Regeneracy within the timeframe of the Proper - Nomad - Hero Crisis configuration of generations meant throwing away the no-trigger conjectures.  What is happening now is much more in line with what S&H proposed.

Can you think of any time when your values shifted?  Anyone?  What does it take before you will?  Will the few percent lethality of the Coronavirus plus a slight chance or reducing lung capacity be enough?