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[Eric the Green]

(06-12-2020, 06:25 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(06-12-2020, 02:00 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The ecological and global warming aspects CANNOT be left out of the blue agenda and the crisis resolution in this 4T. Science makes that clear. Solutions must be instituted in this 4T, or they will be too late. Even so, further push will be needed in the 2T and I agree with your prediction about it.

I strongly sympathize.  People are being disappointed in advance of Biden.  We don't know how he will balance the economy and the planet.  We don't know if his VP choice will step up.  Still, I can't see what other than ecology is on deck for the awakening.

Anyone?

I think the ecology will not be entirely solved by the time of the next Awakening, so, as I suggested, you are right I think that it will be perhaps still the major item. It's just that we will need to make big strides on global warming in this turning, or it will be too late to do it all in the next Awakening. At that time the challenge will be to make more substantial changes in our ways of life and communities. It could be called the Green Revolution, and the young prophets will be the green pioneers and the alpha wave movement.

Meanwhile, climate change is definitely on Biden's agenda, as it is for all the Democratic candidates at all levels. Restimulating the economy and revitalizing the ecology will increasingly be seen as in harmony. The only obstacle to important actions on this issue in the 4T will be how much Republican power remains, and for how long. The battle between red and blue is likely to be resolved only by the end of the decade. But by then, the red side will be making rearguard and desperate attempts in a losing cause. How much institutional change will be needed to allow for a blue triumph remains to be seen, but it could be considerable. Although the new consensus will consolidate the changes, Classic Xer and Warren will be happier with the following 1T when some family values and patriotism return for a while.

The cycles I see indicate that the next Awakening will fulfill the previous one, but with more tenacity and clarity and less chaos. So I also see another great society and further curbs on racism, and this will have a global reach this time. I predicted this global extension years ago, and we already see the portents this week. But the virtual society that millennials and "Zers" are so involved in and pushing forward could lead to some escapes from it in the next Awakening, which will be another "back to Nature" thrust. Sex will be hot again as well, and interest in the occult and spirituality will revive again too. Evangelism of various kinds could erupt in 2048. 

All this too, and more, is not all that different from the previous awakening, except the "matrix" will have gone so much further by then than what worried people in the sixties like punch cards and big blue mainframes taking over our lives. Reclaiming our bodies and souls from the information age will be an existential need. Stimulating the senses will be uppermost. Escapism in general could be a major theme, together with greater emphasis on community building, city-redesign, and education that involves young people with organic activities and working together. Health care reform will be a big theme as well, and re-envisioning the workplace. The sixties opened the door on these trends, but they were never really taken very far.

The arts will hark back to the second-to-previous awakening with a new kind of impressionism and organic art-nouveau-like style in the early awakening years, and later on in the 2050s a literature revival also akin to that earlier awakening era in the 1900s. The city beautiful movement of that time will be revived. In the later years in the 2050s, diplomacy and networking will get intense again, and this will be a more optimistic and enthusiastic era than the 1970s were, again in that way more resembling the late 1890s and the 1900s. Cynicism, disillusion, economic recessions. ecological breakdowns, and existential anxiety will likely return in the 2060s, as the advances of the late 2040s may then seem inadequate and false already. This will be our next 3T.