Are we at a tipping point in American history?
There are so many forces converging in American society and politics that there is good reason to think great changes will come to all of us sooner than we may imagine.
To summarize a list of these forces is astounding when considering them as a collective whole.
· The Western and American baby boom population bubble with all its good and sad influences is coming to an end due to age.
· The rise of Media’s influence on citizens is peaking due to the declining effect on them. Both have changed.
· American historical isolationism and pacifisms are reasserting themselves. We are the New World, and will not let the Old World problems and ideas drag us down.
· Social engineering has new lenses to be evaluated by … results. The times of good intentions and spending money are not the only lenses.
· Group rights compared to individual rights are reasserting themselves to their traditional place. Crime is one example, as people demand security for themselves and their families, with the individual rights of the criminal coming in a poor second. Looking at things in terms of National Interests is the best example.
· Female emancipation, already accomplished in the legal sense, is changing everything American.
· The world seems smaller to US citizens. War, fair trade, plague, and the rise of the third world are big concerns for impacts at home.
· The worldwide and national communications links are at an all-time high, and increasing.
· Islamic fascists and imperialists have declared war on us, and conducted attacks in our homeland, and have killed a lot of people.
· The poor attention to the rule of law and our Constitution is ending its decline.
· The idealistic trends and dogma in mainstream religions, academia, and the judicial branches are slowly coming back to more traditional purposes and responsibilities.
Suggesting change is coming is not very profound, since change is constant. Suggesting a coming high rate of change due to converging forces is much more profound in its implications for our Country, especially if it happens in the timeframes we saw in the 1960’s. Not all changes are prompted by failure or letdown. In fact most changes are to improve things, a belief we all share.
1 comment:
I appreciate your attempting (no sarcasm intended) to identify major trends. That is strategic thinking at its best.
I am struck by the unwillingness of voters to address serious problems and their willingness to be satisfied by fairy tales and policies manifestly at variance with history and human nature.
As Orwell said, roughly, the situation is so confused that the first duty of intelligent men is to restate the obvious. Thus, along with good strategic thinking, I say that these are times that require us to return to an examination of "first principles." Multiculturalism, for example, is light years from any kind of healthy organizing principle for any society, let alone our own.
Did you mean:
· The poor attention to the rule of law and our Constitution is [leading to] its decline?
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