The Coronavirus

[Classic-Xer]

(05-03-2020, 09:43 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: That's why some of us here have offered revisions of the anomaly. It struck me immediately as an attempt to lump Lincoln in with the prophet generation archetype. However, Mike Alexander sticks with the dates because he says their biological research was solid.

The 1950s had quite a few similarities to the gilded age, as S&H defined it (and I agree with their dates). The Age of Hate mirrored McCarthyism, and the end of Reconstruction matched the end of reform under Eisenhower. Progress toward human rights and equality pretty much ended in both eras, and as the name suggests, the Gilded Age matched the materialism of the "progress is our most important product" era of the 1950s and early 60s. Much building and industrial growth occurred in both eras. Prosperity grew in the Gilded Age, as in the American Decade, but the bourgeois mentality predominated over the slowly-growing labor activism and socialist thought, much as civil rights controversy and economic inequality was beginning to stir activism in the 1950s, but not getting too far yet.

The period of rapid invention and discovery that ended the horse and buggy era and led to the conveniences of the 1950s and today actually happened in the 2T, just as the most recent 2T created our computerized world. That's when the most discoveries are made, not during the the 1T. Some early significant inventions that changed the world began with Bell and Edison in 1876, but the old era had not ended yet. The period we physically live in is largely the child of the 1886 to 1908 period, when also the planetary cycles and the research of many historians indicated that a 500-year cycle of civilization had ended and a new one had begun. 

That's also the indicator of the age of world wars and great depression that immediately followed 1908 as well, which you mentioned as transforming Europe. Historians often agree that the 500-year Renaissance/Baroque/Enlightenment Era of European continental discoveries, colonies and imperialism ended with the imperialist battles between the powers in the 1890s and 1900s followed by the great wars. We are in a new era now, which was signaled by the League of Nations founding. We are globalizing, irrevocably.

We will return to the Gilded Age in an archetypal sense in 2029. What you don't see Mr. Classic Xer, with your rather parochial and provincial Republican style of thought, is archetypal similarity and cyclic rhythm. Of course one age is not just like another, and in many periods of history there is some progress going on. 

But before we get back to an age of relative normality, we have much to transform in our 4T, however less drastic for the world it may be than what happened in the previous 3T and 4T. COVID-19 is part of it, and it has resulted from the chief crisis of our time, our encroachment on and destruction of Nature. That calamity and its consequences won't end in 2029, but we will be required to change course or suffer irremediable damage to our country and our world. And to accomplish this new direction, we have to get rid of the Trumpists who like nothing better than to bulldoze everything in sight. And that will take a crisis event to accomplish.

As I recall, the anomaly removed the presence of a hero generation. No disrespect but this is America and the book wasn't manufactured and published for free. Market factors apply to everything these days. It's pretty clear to me that the book was written to appeal to two primary age groups of readers/customers/consumers. So, who is parochial and provincial in the way they view things and think. We are sitting in the Gilded Age right now and our side has decided to begin moving forward with or without blue consent. We've been doing business with the world since we started out as a country and I expect that will continue. As I've told you, the Republican voters aren't dumb or as backward as you claim.