Comments on: Is this a Fourth Turning?

By: JP

JP — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 17:05:42 +0000

Contemplating this and the arson destruction of the St Peter and Paul Cathedral in Nantes today 7/18/20. This article about generational spirits adds to the understanding. https://preview.tinyurl.com/GenerationalSpirits

By: Strange Daze

Strange Daze — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 16:27:53 +0000

[…] Is this a Fourth Turning? – The New Neo “History is seasonal, and winter is coming,” they wrote… Warning that “a sudden spark will catalyze a crisis mood,” Howe and Strauss said that “[r]emnants of the old social order will disintegrate. Political and economic trust will implode. Real hardship will beset the land, with severe distress that could involve questions of class, race, nation, and empire.” Sometime before 2025, they wrote, “America will pass through a great gate in history” and “the very survival of the nation will feel at stake.” […]

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 12:39:15 +0000

Made me chuckle…. (No small thing these days.)
Ah the man was a genius.
A veritable poet.
Thanks!!

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 11:10:37 +0000

“Nobody goes to that restaurant anymore, it’s too crowded.” – Yogi Berra

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 09:14:20 +0000

“When you come to a fork in the road, take it” is no slouch, either…and advice I always try to abide by.

By: Tom Grey

Tom Grey — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 08:39:58 +0000

The Three Gorges Dam is probably doomed. (Thx Fractal for link)
If it breaks fast, millions, tens of millions, possibly hundreds of millions will die.

Worse than the Yellowstone super-volcano exploding and killing hundreds of thousands.

Culturally in the US, it’s Trump and freedom vs. thought slavery. The elite though slavers could win, especially with mail-in vote fraud.

The US national debt continues to expand – all my life “inflation hawks” have warned about a Weimar type hyperinflation. I haven’t seen it, and don’t see it coming “soon”. The US Dollar is the world’s reserve currency. Before it crashes, there needs to be some alternative. Not Euro, not Yuan (Renminbi), not BitCoin. Tho maybe a great cyber currency can still be made? Budget deficits do matter.

If (when?) Three Gorges Dam fails, it will be clear that “global warming” fears should have been translated into engineering. To prepare for more floods and more droughts. If climate is changing, all previous flooding areas will either have more, less, or similar amounts of flooding. Possibly in thirds. The “more flood” thirds need to expect 20%, 50%, some 100% (?) more floods than in the past.
Here are some dam breaks on camera:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-H8hPs4FQ

Not including the Michigan Edenville dam in May.

By: Eeyore

Eeyore — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 02:18:23 +0000

Deja vu all over again.

The best Yogi Berra quote was, “I never said half the things I said”.

Wrong. The best Yogi Berra quote was,

“Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.”

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Remember, Yogi played most of his career for Casey Stengel. (“Good pitching beats good pitching or vice versa. But sometimes it doesn’t always work.”) The difference is that, if you work through what Casey said, you can believe he meant it like that. (Also remember that Ike was President, another famous for fractured syntax. And people think the 50s were dull.)

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 11:24:03 +0000

Fractal Rabbit, don’t count your rabbit eggs of 2024 before you can survive 2020 first.

By: Fractal Rabbit

Fractal Rabbit — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 23:02:05 +0000

Another “sudden spark” I’m reading about, through Michael Yon, is the possible collapse of China’s Three Gorges Dam.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/china-if-three-39315722

Apparently, due to the historic and catastrophic rains, the dam has already moved a few inches, and according to one Chinese engineer who fled the country years ago, is not connected to the bedrock beneath it.

And western engineers warned the Chinese that the dam was not built to any kind of standard and the westerners ere called racist and ignored.Yon says it could be the most singular even in human history with 400 million people, including shanghai and Wuhan in danger.

That would be a heck of a spark.

By: Michael Adams

Michael Adams — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 21:54:05 +0000

In support, I offer the example of Hurricane Katrina, in which Bush II caused the flooding of ten thousand people in New Orleans, who had initially refused evacuation efforts by state and Federal government agencies. I have a very clear mental picture of the cover of the ECONOMIST, with its cover photograph of the flooded school buses and “America’s shame” as the caption. That really hit us in the solar plexus, as several of my family were participants in the effort to move the flood victims from New Orleans, to Houston, and then some of them to Austin. A year later, serious flooding threatened Houston/Galveston, and Texas evacuated them all, with few casualties. (Yep, we are getting good at this. And still have massive disaster drills, at some expense. But then, Texas is not Louisiana. snicker)Whatever comes, a Republican in the White House will be blamed, especially in the corporate media.