The 4T Generational Constellations - Red v Blue

[Eric the Green]

(10-19-2020, 12:12 PM)sbarrera Wrote: Paul Zimmy Finn describes the two zones, if not the two constellations. The Johnson vision versus the Reagan vision.

The Haight book was discussed in these forums long ago. The commentator in this video reveals his right-wing bias by attributing the first three values only to the Left, while declaring that the Right respects all six. In fact, the right-wing only respects the bottom three values.

Also, he identifies the right-wing with respect for "tradition." That is a vague term, as was his description of the Durkheim vision. What it really points to is Classic Xer. The vision of the right is obedience to authority, regardless of merit. The right appeals to this, because it is sick and depraved and has no respect for rationality or truth. It expects us to believe in these "traditions" because they are traditions, and is bothered because they are not held in sanctity. The right-wing thinks that unless certain beliefs are held by the people without question, without offending sensibilities of those who hold them, society breaks down. The narrator reveals his stand at the end, finally, by saying "God Bless America." In other words, he expects that we should all believe in God, likely as interpreted by right-wing fundamentalists, and our country, as an authority which should not be questioned, as if we lived in a kingdom or empire and not a democracy.

In fact, the Left believes in tradition, the tradition of what America is and was founded to be. A republic based on democracy and certain inalienable rights. This, the right wing does not respect.

But the narrator appears to be correct that the left-right divide is not being healed. He forgets that the civil war anomaly which Strauss and Howe described is false. Right now, we are in a re-run of the 1850s, not the 1860s. That is why a "regeneracy" has not happened. The break-up may well be about to start in the coming decade, perhaps half-way through as I have predicted. It appears more certain than ever now, with a government that the voters and their right-wing authorities have constructed to block all progress in dealing with the decay that The Fourth Turning describes during a crisis. Our government is now unable to act on these concerns at all. The vote for Trump in red states was 10 to 30% higher than predicted by the polls, and lays out a clear contiguous heartland red territory. The vote for Biden in blue states was enough to give him a 4 or 5 million popular vote margin from states largely confined to edges of the country. So where does that lead us if not toward even more disaster, frustration, decline, or break-up?