@Mrchess78 said in #16:
> All the things you list above are happening, and if not right now, then very soon.
> The Freudian slip reference was in regard to when you mentioned 'revolution' suddenly in your first post, but incidentally, no offence was meant by it. :).
Perhaps soon- but people have been prophesying apocalypse for a long time so most are pretty numbed to the predictions.
I don't think we're truly in what I'd term a major crisis for most - things are pretty messed up and on a 'crash course' yes I'd grant that - but the majority are still quite comfortable. When 20%+ of the population can't afford to pay rent, can't afford food, is jobless... & there's real mass famine with inflation hitting a consistant 10%+.. or a war with millions of casualties.. then we'll be talking a real crisis. Until then it's mostly abstract even if the underlying problems are real and looming
My definition of a real crisis - look at things in China/USSR, etc in the early-mid 20th century ... nothing we're experiencing or have experienced in the west since the 1930s/40s comes anywhere remotely close to that level of upheaval in any way.
> All the things you list above are happening, and if not right now, then very soon.
> The Freudian slip reference was in regard to when you mentioned 'revolution' suddenly in your first post, but incidentally, no offence was meant by it. :).
Perhaps soon- but people have been prophesying apocalypse for a long time so most are pretty numbed to the predictions.
I don't think we're truly in what I'd term a major crisis for most - things are pretty messed up and on a 'crash course' yes I'd grant that - but the majority are still quite comfortable. When 20%+ of the population can't afford to pay rent, can't afford food, is jobless... & there's real mass famine with inflation hitting a consistant 10%+.. or a war with millions of casualties.. then we'll be talking a real crisis. Until then it's mostly abstract even if the underlying problems are real and looming
My definition of a real crisis - look at things in China/USSR, etc in the early-mid 20th century ... nothing we're experiencing or have experienced in the west since the 1930s/40s comes anywhere remotely close to that level of upheaval in any way.