05-16-2020, 02:42 PM
To be honest, I really am a sceptic if 9/11 and 2008 were catalyst events. From what I am seeing, it really does like the 2020 Corona virus could very well be a catalyst event if the world economy goes into a great depression.
The reason I am coming to this conclusion is that with catalyst events, average every day life radically changes. Look at the actual great depression. Life radically changed that there was no going back to the way life was before. This is not so the case with 9/11 and 2008. They were more like slow decline events but life still went on as normal.
If and I mean if 2020 turns out to be the total game changer, that means life as we know it is going to radically change. There won't be no going back to the old ways. Globalisation itself is going to heavily be affected with countries going back to a more nationalistic and protectionist stance. Which itself was not a huge factor with the last two events.
Also if 2020 is the catalyst, then I would expect a revival to be around 2040 or the late 2030s.
However, if 2020 is a climax and nothing majorly changes, then this was one hell of a weird 4T. That itself means globalisation and life as we know it continues on as before with Brexit and Trump being mere blips in the radar. If that is the case, I honestly cannot see what a revival would even look like. People will just adopt the get on with your life syndrome and nothing will actually change, meaning that overall, this 4T was a damn pretty pointless and meaningless one in the grand scheme of things.
Honestly, I still think we have just entered it.
The reason I am coming to this conclusion is that with catalyst events, average every day life radically changes. Look at the actual great depression. Life radically changed that there was no going back to the way life was before. This is not so the case with 9/11 and 2008. They were more like slow decline events but life still went on as normal.
If and I mean if 2020 turns out to be the total game changer, that means life as we know it is going to radically change. There won't be no going back to the old ways. Globalisation itself is going to heavily be affected with countries going back to a more nationalistic and protectionist stance. Which itself was not a huge factor with the last two events.
Also if 2020 is the catalyst, then I would expect a revival to be around 2040 or the late 2030s.
However, if 2020 is a climax and nothing majorly changes, then this was one hell of a weird 4T. That itself means globalisation and life as we know it continues on as before with Brexit and Trump being mere blips in the radar. If that is the case, I honestly cannot see what a revival would even look like. People will just adopt the get on with your life syndrome and nothing will actually change, meaning that overall, this 4T was a damn pretty pointless and meaningless one in the grand scheme of things.
Honestly, I still think we have just entered it.