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The Seventh Crisis and the Millennials
American Thinker ^ | 27 Mar, 2021 | Bob MacGuffie and Antony Stark

Posted on 03/27/2021 3:39:19 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Over the course of recent decades our country has endured an assault on its institutions, its traditions, and its good and decent people. This relentless assault has driven the country into a grave crisis, causing it to pass through a great gate of history. This crisis will be momentous, consequential, and we will be profoundly changed by it.

Our nation has experienced similar existential crises before in the American Revolution, the Civil War and the Great Depression/World War II. Each of these crucibles brought about wide-ranging transformations. As events have accelerated in the past several years, there appears to be little doubt the nation has entered another such crisis.

Why do we term this the seventh crisis? In their 1997 book, The Fourth Turning, demographers William Strauss and Neil Howe viewed history through a generational lens. Their compelling account organizes Anglo-American history into seven repeating cycles starting in the fifteenth century.

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Where American society once had pride in being part of the Western Enlightenment, its younger members have been taught to seek “emancipation” from its influence.

Where truth was once immutable it is now ephemeral.

Where privacy was once sacred, it is now nearly extinct.

Where the Deep State used to lurk in the shadows, it now brazenly justifies its repression in congressional hearings.

Where the two-party system once debated how government should be run, the Uni-party government now agrees on the necessity of making itself ever more powerful.

Where academia once taught, it now indoctrinates; where it once sought to educate the mind it now seeks to radicalize the soul.

Where Big Tech promised to liberate information, it now censors, controls, and manipulates it.

Where entertainment once provided cultural edification and popular amusement, it now glorifies despair, degeneracy and cultural rot.

Where Religion was once about glorifying GOD,

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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1 posted on 03/27/2021 3:39:19 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

An interesting article, but hard to fit the gist of it into the 300 word excerpt limit.


2 posted on 03/27/2021 3:39:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Its a good thing the election was stolen so American Stinker could finally publish this!


3 posted on 03/27/2021 4:13:41 AM PDT by 100%FEDUP (I'm seeing RED!)
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To: MtnClimber

Interesting. From the article:
“Ordered Liberty is the primacy of the Individual over the Collective and the embrace of values including Capitalism, Judeo-Christian Morality, decentralized as opposed to centralized power, a democratic republic under constitutional law rather than a majoritarian democracy at the mercy of mob rule. All these elements work together to create a society constituted on a national rather than an international basis that protects its own history, its own ethical and religious values, its own myths, its own heroes, its own holidays and its own national heritage.”

From what I have seen, it is way too late for that.
Youngsters have been taught to hate such thoughts and MOST do.
If we are waiting on them to have a righteous awakening, we are doomed.
I wait to be pleasantly surprised.


4 posted on 03/27/2021 4:15:26 AM PDT by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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To: MtnClimber

Peruse later.


5 posted on 03/27/2021 5:19:21 AM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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