Hello once again and it has been too long. Much has occurred between the last post and now – too much to cover, but we do know that the world is becoming much less ordered and much more chaotic in many areas. A call to action is necessary, but this is not what you think. It is a call to action to your and my thinking about the past and how it relates to the future.
We are rapidly moving from the world we knew (Post-WWII) to the world to come (Beyond the New Millennium). I had introduced the Howe-Strauss Generational Theory in my last post HERE: similarly and keeping with this theory, Peter Ziehan (proud Gen X) as an expert in geopolitics, discusses the coming wars of the disorder and other related subjects in a recent keynote named: America at the Edge. It is an hour and a half of eye opening information. Did you know the United States is a net exporter of fossil fuels and North America is energy independent? This is new – within the last 2 to 5 years. It puts the old “Risk” board back into play. Those who are not self-sufficient will no longer have America to keep the peace in exchange for access to inexpensive goods and services. Automation, technology and innovation will bring production and assembly closer to the consumers, which Americans are a majority, and we will no longer need a global network to produce items like automobiles, electronics, and consumer goods.
Peter Ziehan’s web site features maps of the world showing his thinking about the move from the “New World Order” to the “Disorder” of the current 4th Turning. As a fan of the old board game “Risk” these were interesting… all from his latest book (which I plan to read or at least listen to ‘on tape’) “The Absent Superpower“. So what is all of this telling us? The old is giving way to the new. The old ways of political power and influence are fading. Our political process and power is shifting and that will most likely be to the individual. World-wide, they might not be so lucky in Europe or South East Asia. Debts and deficit spending, poor planning and corruption will bring pain to many and those that depend on broke (or broken) governments for their surety, will ultimately get hurt. Mr. Ziehan can’t predict the future, like I cannot predict it either, but the data shows something will have to give and within the next decade. So as we enter the crisis on our way to what is beyond, may God be with us and may we always be grateful, help others and reach out to those who cannot help themselves.
GenX Turns Fifty 