... Only question for me is whether it's once-in-a-century scale, or bigger (perhaps a lot bigger).
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@adissidentright. Seems like a "Fourth Turning"
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... if the Third Turning had mated with Godzilla.
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name one time in history when we (for whatever value of "we") were NOT at a crossroad
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This is like nothing I've ever seen before, and I'm no spring chicken.
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What exactly are you referring to?
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Conjunction of media / religious / geopolitical catastrophe (in the Thom-sense) mostly -- smells like 1517.
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That's so perfect it leaves me a little breathless. ...
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... Following tradition, suicidal civilizations are buried at the cross-roads of history.
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Are there really any comparable examples, though? Decadence, ok, but...willful self-sacrifice?
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Me. Reagan, Thatcher, Haider, Orban...shifts to the right happen all the time. only new thing is soc media edginess
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this is neither the first nor the most severe blow to cathedralic hegemony - I count at least 4 with German involvement alone
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Is that list twitterable?
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well there's the birth of german nationalism in resisting the already diminished universalism of Napoleon
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which is also the birth of romantic ethnic nationalism in the modern sense
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then you have the sublation of what's left of german liberalism in Prussian imperialism
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then the ultimate unsurpassed blow to internationalism, WWI
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and who could forget forcing virtually all of Europe under an ethno-nationalist regime in an apocalyptic war
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