The Coronavirus

[nguyenivy]

(11-04-2021, 03:46 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: In earlier American crises, the selfish attitude of the unraveling was overcome by a blatant threat to the common good.  The crisis mood soon overcame the unraveling mood.  This time around?  The desire to not solve problems but leave resources available to the individual has so far stuck.  The key seems to be that the government cannot have a regeneracy, a commitment to the new values, when the Congress is so close to balance.  Every senator has an effective veto.  This cannot change for at least a year.

Weren't at least one previous Crisis regeneracy phase caused by external factors? Was the general population of the US heavily involved in WW2 prior to the Pearl Harbor attack, for instance? Maybe dealing with COVID-19 was supposed to be used as Regeneracy this time around, but so far it doesn't feel like it (at least since about May/June 2020 when some states opened early and others were more cautious). Even some news mag sites are starting to post stuff like being in limbo regarding how we'll know when COVID is done, or how unsure life is now despite availability of vaccines. 


If the 4T still has till about end of this decade to resolve, perhaps the Regeneracy is yet to come. Maybe it will be another thing like the 'Great Resignation' that appears to be more connected to other prior events in the 3T that led us here, even if COVID just accelerated it to now rather than a more gradual wave of resignations. The last 4T began with the Great Depression & not WW2, right? So maybe the Regeneracy is more connected to the economic situation of the population rather than COVID-19 no longer being a threat. An easy way to mentally test the theory would be to imagine if COVID never existed or if we solve it a lot faster - the economic and other inequalities we have in society would still be there & need to be repaired so we have a fairer society. Maybe time for a 2nd New Deal? Last time we had the New Deal prior to the war. Maybe this time we get something similar going on after COVID-19?