Turchin’s book Secular Cycles describes longer 300 year societal cycles, but also shorter generational cycles that happen when younger generations forget the lessons their grandparents and great-grandparents learned the hard way. So I think you’re both right.
The good news is that these cycles are also a function of technology and how people have thought and acted historically. This isn’t an iron law and we might be able to resist it if we don’t stop fighting.
In any event, i’d rather keep fighting against total civilizational decline and have lost than have given up entirely. You can still make SHTF plans without giving up!
In any event, i’d rather keep fighting against total civilizational decline and have lost than have given up entirely. You can still make SHTF plans without giving up!
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Include in the SHTF plans a commitment to creating things. Use the time now spent consuming *entertainment*. Utilize what you have internalized of our culture and history. Upcoming generations will be grateful, especially after living in the planned dystopia that is being threatened.
While many of us may be called to fight and others will be called to support them,most of us need to just make ourselves less available to the mass inculcation being instigated. A version of Going Galt for the working class.