tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post7031402096615005064..comments2024-03-19T11:28:58.168-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: A blast from the pastDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-74962098060475327672015-02-07T07:10:57.363-05:002015-02-07T07:10:57.363-05:00I appreciate the bipartisan nature of generational...I appreciate the bipartisan nature of generational theory, that it gets to the psychology of the generation of people making decisions, which is of course your point as objective scientific observer. This is the advantage of a historical social theory based on a long term biological sample. The conservative wing of republicans sees through these examples in your blog entry that boomer tactics are ideological and antidemocratic whether from right or left just as under Lincoln, founding fathers, idealism reigned supreme, pushing the country to a logical end in independence, unity, global power respectively. <br />Seeing the trend of blind striving towards more autonomy, consolidation of power on continent and globally one wonders when and where thi can end. As it has nothing to do with ideology of say Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Bush but with a general striving, or will to power, w hich will be fulfilled until it reaches absolute limits then Obama and the next presidents, boomer or Lost prototype, as Eisenhower, seem ready to sacrifice ideals to this USA civilizational precept, fundamental concept, if you will, of limitless expansion into an empty wilderness. A concept born with the landing on Plymouth Rock is absolutely fundamental to American consciousness. Onlythe failure of this precept in terms growth in scientific knowledge, wealth, space exploration, military and economic domination can bring about a cultural renewal towards what many cultures have previously discovered, limits. <br /><br />Spengler saw the West in principle in this quandary but since then America has become the only power not humbled by total war on its own territory and/or a brutal dictatorship and so remains alone in this illusion of expansion towards fulfillment. I maintain that the supposedly most inactive culture, India, likely the oldest, found their happiness inside and is therefore so passive. Pursuit of happiness infringes on others in an open world. America is a young, isolated country. The relatively passive, half destroyed world passed the baton of leadership to the healthy, young, perhaps inexperienced, and unaware of personal shortcomings USA. Balance is slowly being restored as third world, China, Russia come out of their centuries long isolation to understand the Western cultural concepts and to participate in the global culture. America and the West are physically, morally, experientially, too weak to lead earth alone into the future of humanity. Perhaps mankind as lead animal will have to relinquish its place. Bush is not someone else, he is all of us.Energyflowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14476915209268786507noreply@blogger.com