The Coronavirus

[Bob Butler 54]

(06-12-2020, 08:27 AM)David Horn Wrote: I have to side with Bob on this.  Yes, 2Ts point a spotlight on the faults in society, but they typically produce no positive changes.  This last 2T actually solidified the power of the reactionary element in this country and many other parts of the world as well.  But eventually, the rot is unavoidably bad, and action is needed to alter or eliminate it.  That's where we are -- at the beginning of the resolution.  But let's not assume we know what that resolution will actually turn out to be.  We have a hint of where we'll end, but we're still moving toward the problem. 

Here, in the US, Biden won't be a savior; he'll be a placeholder at best.  Someone or something else needs to take center stage before we can resolve this mess, and the list of potential leaders is short.

The 1960s and the Conscious Revolution had two faces. The first half ended the progressive period. The second half initiated the conservative period. As that was the first and thus far only Information Age awakening, I am vaguely anticipating that the next awakening will more closely resemble the 1960s than the religious revivals common in the Industrial Age.

These two faces, though, will be hard to repeat. The blue boomers backed by support from the GIs to actually solve the problems yelled about made the 1960s much more change inducing than the typical awakening. In return, the conservative reaction created a much greater kickback. The boomer generation became very much split. The red half very determined that if the future shock and extreme change of the 1960s had to be accepted for the most part, there would be no more change.

I have trouble seeing that repeat. I can see the economy being wrecked by the bug in the near future, therefore the ecological and global warming aspects of the blue agenda being left out of the crisis resolution. If so, the next group of prophets might turn out to be my anticipated green generation, and that will be at the center of what they protest for. The next 2T will be when the ecological problems will be pushed inevitably forward. I don’t see the prophets as letting their elders continue to dither. They will force the early awakening to be as transformational as the last 2T.

Will a conservative backlash develop against that? Will an obstructionist wave destroy the save the planet movement to make sure the planet gets killed? I have a bit of trouble with that. The ecology should be really solid by then, the science beyond dispute.

We’ll have to wait to see how the conservatives respond, how the try to fight ecological thinking as the new selfish unraveling inevitably takes its turn. I can’t believe they will be as greedy as the current reds, but I sort of expect them to try.