We’re in the eye of the storm.
Yesterday I read Citixen’s most-excellent righteous rant: Call Me Crazy, But SCOTUS Likely Just Won The Election For Democrats. I couldn't agree more. If you haven't read it . . . you must.
Mostly I lurk here. I rarely post a comment. But I did yesterday . . .
Well now! Nearly 500 comments to read . . . which I don't have enough time. So, if this is brought up somewhere else in this tsunami of comments . . . forgive me. Thank you for posting this most righteous of righteous rants.
I am a staunch believer in “Cycle Theory”, ala The Fourth Turning written by Strauss & Howe, first published in 1997. Strauss is now deceased. So, on his own, Howe published an updated version last year entitled The Fourth Turning is Here, which we pre-ordered and I DEVOURED!!! But in the beginning . . . I got majorly pissed off and threw the book across the room.
Why?
Because Howe stated this current Fourth Turning wouldn't be over till around 2028 or so. Hell no, I fumed! We'll have to endure another five, six or seven more years of this shit!!!!! I almost didn't want to pick the book back up . . . but I eventually did.
If you know your history you learned that history records the catalyst for the Revolutionary War was The Boston Tea Party (with a LOT of help from Thomas Paine publishing Common Sense, published in 1775, and many, many others, of course) . . . and the bombing of Fort Sumter for The Civil War . . . and the bombing of Pearl Harbor for WWII.
What you are so aptly describing here in your most righteous of righteous rants . . . is the textbook definition of The Catalyst that gets the ball rolling. “A Crisis occurs when a catalyst—a major event or series of events that creates a mood shift—ignites a significant change in society.”
You nailed it. I told my wife this morning I thought this was it. And then I come here and I read the IRL absolute BEST example possible.
Thank you.
The catalyst of a Fourth Turning can also be called The Great Reshuffling, which is what I'm calling this post. It can also be called “Out with the old ~ In with the new”. Everyone my age can remember the old Dawn Dishwashing soap commercial where a single drop is added to a bowl filled with greasy water and INSTANTLY the sheen of grease runs for the hills . . . this, my friends, is the perfect encapsulation of a Fourth Turning Catalyst.
I felt it yesterday. Everyone is in panic mode over the latest SCOTUS ruling. Untold numbers of people are for the first time looking around and going . . . “Wha . . wha . . . what’s going on here?” . . . and they're in shock. Again, Citixen nailed it yesterday.
What we can expect going forward is a marked quickening of changes. Instead of a feeling we’re all wading through molasses . . . events will start happening fast and furious. It feels like we’re now in a fight to the death and everyone pitches in to conquer the enemy. In our case today, just like in WWII, the enemy is fascism and/or any derivative of same.
Please add your experiences with this Catalyst in the comments.
Welcome to The Great Reshuffling of 2024.
ETA: Two things. I opened Xaxnar’s excellent post yesterday (David Kurtz at Talking Points Memo: We Are In A Cold Civil War) but didn’t get to read it till this morning. This is YET ANOTHER Catalyst post you should read if you missed it.
And two . . . I recently bumped into ResistanceLive and never miss one of her videos now. Please invest 30 minutes of your time to watch this one. It’s epic. She states our current discord after SCOTUS’ ruling is due to . . . wait for it! . . . RUSSIAN/CHINESE/IRANIAN BOTS!!! This gal has a righteous rant nearly every weekday morning at 9 ET (She’s in the middle of relocating from the west coast back to NYC, so the next week or so may be hectic and unpredictable). If you need to be talked off the ledge . . . this is her forte’.