Millenial83 wrote:
> You said "religions" form in the Awakening and are either accepted
> or rejected in the Crisis. Sorry to burst your bubble but the
> "egalitarianism" and "all races are equal" ideology that sprung up
> in the 60's IS A RELIGION.
You're stretching the meaning of "religion" to make an invalid point.
Without getting into a big philosophical discussion of what a
"religion" is, for a religion to become established during a crisis
war, then it has to play an important part in the crisis war, mainly
by politicians and generals using it as a justification for the war,
as in "Kill the infidels!"
You're calling "egalitarianism" a religion, but I can't imagine a
politician or general justifying a crisis war with "Kill the
egalitarians!" or "Kill the xenophobes!" So however you want to
define religion, egalitarianism does not fulfill the main requirement
that it play an important part in justifying a crisis war.
Egalitarianism and xenophobia are opposite poles of the same concept.
Egalitarianism grows during Awakening eras, and xenophobia grows
during Crisis eras, so they flip back and forth as the decades go by.
Millenial83 wrote:
> I hope against hope that your prediction of World War III with
> China is wrong.
OK, I'm confused. Previously you wrote:
Millenial83 wrote:
> You may dread the coming conflagration but I for one welcome
> it.
You seem to be flip-flopping as often as Trump does.