Post by artraveler on Mar 16, 2022 18:51:11 GMT -8
End of an Era
In October 1929 the American stock market crashed. It was the opening of a historical era that ended with the destruction of Europe and Japan. Historians documented this era and millions of words have been written about the time and how it changed the future. In 1992 the fall of the Soviet State foreshadowed the end of the Cold War era and the beginning of another era, a transition from a war stance to the appearance of peace. Similar events have happened in recent history to ask the question. Does the winter of 2019 for future historians represent the end and beginning of a similar era?
Few recognize the end or beginning of new eras in history as they live through them. Very few in Europe, other than Earl Gray recognized the lights in Europe would go out and not be lit again for years in 1914. In 1876 two features on the horizon, Custer, and the 7th calvary are massacred at Little Big Horn and reconstruction ended in the South. These twin occurrences marked the end of the Civil War era and the beginning of the modern. In Europe, a united Germany soundly defeated France at Suden and captured Napoleonian II in 1871. Europe started the slow guide to WWI.
The signs are there, we have but to interpret them. A questionable election in 2020, a pandemic in which mostly old people are killed, inflation brought on by incompetence or intent by an administration that appears unqualified about the world, threats of war in Asia, and actual war in Eastern Europe. The world sits on the edge of disaster as a diver holding his breath before the deep plunge. We cannot yet see into the deep to avoid the rocks and sholes waiting for the plummet.
Perhaps, there will be no dive at all. The war in Europe will sputter out and Russian forces will be withdrawn. Chinese troops massing on the coast, in preparation for invasion, will be sent home. Inflation will cool and the price of oil will subside. The moment will pass, and the citizens of the world will never see the sword of Damocles passing over their head.
However, the world will have changed. Governments worldwide, because of Covid, have had a taste of compulsive power and will never willingly give up that power. And people, whose parents, and grandparents would never have surrendered their rights, calmly put on masks, and marched to the tune of their oppressors. A change not just in consensual governmental nations, but in governments with few, if any elected officials.
What then, is going to happen in this new era? The march of NATO to war with Russia seems impossible to stop, or even slow. American leaders appear to have lost all caution about involvement in European disputes and the fractured alliances have found new ground to hold in the face of Russian aggression in Ukraine. In the Middle East Russia is recruiting mercenaries to fight in Ukraine and Western countries, while not recruiting to fill Ukrainian levies is allowing Special Ops forces to go to Ukraine. Russian missiles have struck less then 10 miles from the Polish border, one errant missile could trigger a NATO response forcing Russia to war with NATO.
Chinese military aircraft continue to overfly Taiwan and the question in the Pacific is slowly becoming when, not if China will invade. Triggering a response from America, and our allies in the Pacific. Will Japan step up to the threat? Will Australia, New Zealand, Philippians, France, and Great Britain come out of their self-imposed covid comas?
We must ask ourselves, are the wars of the 20th century to be repeated in the 21st century? The world is uncertain, and uncertainty makes normal people to feel misfits in their cultures. Misfits live in an atmosphere of passion. This passion is not confined to just politics but to every element of life. We have seen it in the passion of BLM, Antifa and even the Democrat and Republican Parties. It is the same passion that triggered the American Civil War. Yet, this time the passion has been passed to the rest of the world. And the professional misfits world-wide are sniffing it out pushing, pushing, pushing for conflict. The one thing these misfits desire is to destroy the present. They view the present as completely ruined and only war can bring about their ideal of a glorious future. The sober voices, cautioning care and thought, are being driven out. Yes, the era has changed, and melee, war, destruction, pestilence, and death are waiting.
In October 1929 the American stock market crashed. It was the opening of a historical era that ended with the destruction of Europe and Japan. Historians documented this era and millions of words have been written about the time and how it changed the future. In 1992 the fall of the Soviet State foreshadowed the end of the Cold War era and the beginning of another era, a transition from a war stance to the appearance of peace. Similar events have happened in recent history to ask the question. Does the winter of 2019 for future historians represent the end and beginning of a similar era?
Few recognize the end or beginning of new eras in history as they live through them. Very few in Europe, other than Earl Gray recognized the lights in Europe would go out and not be lit again for years in 1914. In 1876 two features on the horizon, Custer, and the 7th calvary are massacred at Little Big Horn and reconstruction ended in the South. These twin occurrences marked the end of the Civil War era and the beginning of the modern. In Europe, a united Germany soundly defeated France at Suden and captured Napoleonian II in 1871. Europe started the slow guide to WWI.
The signs are there, we have but to interpret them. A questionable election in 2020, a pandemic in which mostly old people are killed, inflation brought on by incompetence or intent by an administration that appears unqualified about the world, threats of war in Asia, and actual war in Eastern Europe. The world sits on the edge of disaster as a diver holding his breath before the deep plunge. We cannot yet see into the deep to avoid the rocks and sholes waiting for the plummet.
Perhaps, there will be no dive at all. The war in Europe will sputter out and Russian forces will be withdrawn. Chinese troops massing on the coast, in preparation for invasion, will be sent home. Inflation will cool and the price of oil will subside. The moment will pass, and the citizens of the world will never see the sword of Damocles passing over their head.
However, the world will have changed. Governments worldwide, because of Covid, have had a taste of compulsive power and will never willingly give up that power. And people, whose parents, and grandparents would never have surrendered their rights, calmly put on masks, and marched to the tune of their oppressors. A change not just in consensual governmental nations, but in governments with few, if any elected officials.
What then, is going to happen in this new era? The march of NATO to war with Russia seems impossible to stop, or even slow. American leaders appear to have lost all caution about involvement in European disputes and the fractured alliances have found new ground to hold in the face of Russian aggression in Ukraine. In the Middle East Russia is recruiting mercenaries to fight in Ukraine and Western countries, while not recruiting to fill Ukrainian levies is allowing Special Ops forces to go to Ukraine. Russian missiles have struck less then 10 miles from the Polish border, one errant missile could trigger a NATO response forcing Russia to war with NATO.
Chinese military aircraft continue to overfly Taiwan and the question in the Pacific is slowly becoming when, not if China will invade. Triggering a response from America, and our allies in the Pacific. Will Japan step up to the threat? Will Australia, New Zealand, Philippians, France, and Great Britain come out of their self-imposed covid comas?
We must ask ourselves, are the wars of the 20th century to be repeated in the 21st century? The world is uncertain, and uncertainty makes normal people to feel misfits in their cultures. Misfits live in an atmosphere of passion. This passion is not confined to just politics but to every element of life. We have seen it in the passion of BLM, Antifa and even the Democrat and Republican Parties. It is the same passion that triggered the American Civil War. Yet, this time the passion has been passed to the rest of the world. And the professional misfits world-wide are sniffing it out pushing, pushing, pushing for conflict. The one thing these misfits desire is to destroy the present. They view the present as completely ruined and only war can bring about their ideal of a glorious future. The sober voices, cautioning care and thought, are being driven out. Yes, the era has changed, and melee, war, destruction, pestilence, and death are waiting.