Economics is complex, especially if one has the average American's background on the subject. Compounding this complexity with politics simply confounds one's ability to seek the necessary objectivity. Seeing a need, I sought a professor to guide me through the headwinds of the current economy and the natural concerns that arise. The tendency to look back and yearn for a 'perceived' safety is simply not a benefit; as much we believed to be stable, quite simply was/is mirage. Homework for the class I am taking is a book: 'The Storm Before the Calm' by George Friedman. Of particular note is this quote, "I noted that every 50 years or so, the nation goes through a cycle of wrenching socioeconomic crisis, the last one starting in the late 1960s and ending in the 1980s. I also noted a second cycle- the eighty-year institutional cycle, starting with the American Revolution, reemerging in the Civil War, and shifting again in World War II. In 2025, it will be eighty years since the end of World War II...I expected the 2020s to be a particularly tense period since these two cycles, the socioeconomic and the institutional, have never bottomed out during the same decade, as they are doing now". While it may be tempting to look specifically at political, we must approach this 'flight' holistically. Churches should and must be a focal point for community, support, awareness of larger community strengths and above all, centered lives in uncertain times. The class I am taking is offered through a church, Quest of Lancaster, Spring 2025. While most of the Quest classes are filmed and available 'on demand' [the first in the financial series on Municipal Bonds was not], you might wish to access the recordings if you would like a bit of a 'flight guide' to help you pilot these troubling times. We are, indeed, made for this flight! God Bless each of us on our quest and God Bless America! Happy Easter.
I’m Canadian, for me it clicked during the George W Bush administration. I couldn’t believe it when he was re-elected. It was that administrations “ Weapons Of Mass Destruction “ criminally and massively destructive war for oil ploy…and the way in spite of all the evidence to the contrary, that administration invaded Iraq. It finished my faith in US governance.
It’s clear to me now that our governing systems are not built to deal with long term threats like climate change… I believe we need to create an entirely new civilization and system of governance. I have a lot of difficulty imagining how, or even if we can get there from here…
We are indeed "Hospicing Modernity",--- and what do we envision for the new era of consciousness, something better or do we evolve in a darker direction?
I needed to hear that we were made for this flight.
Excellent perspective and advice, Cameron. Thank you.
Economics is complex, especially if one has the average American's background on the subject. Compounding this complexity with politics simply confounds one's ability to seek the necessary objectivity. Seeing a need, I sought a professor to guide me through the headwinds of the current economy and the natural concerns that arise. The tendency to look back and yearn for a 'perceived' safety is simply not a benefit; as much we believed to be stable, quite simply was/is mirage. Homework for the class I am taking is a book: 'The Storm Before the Calm' by George Friedman. Of particular note is this quote, "I noted that every 50 years or so, the nation goes through a cycle of wrenching socioeconomic crisis, the last one starting in the late 1960s and ending in the 1980s. I also noted a second cycle- the eighty-year institutional cycle, starting with the American Revolution, reemerging in the Civil War, and shifting again in World War II. In 2025, it will be eighty years since the end of World War II...I expected the 2020s to be a particularly tense period since these two cycles, the socioeconomic and the institutional, have never bottomed out during the same decade, as they are doing now". While it may be tempting to look specifically at political, we must approach this 'flight' holistically. Churches should and must be a focal point for community, support, awareness of larger community strengths and above all, centered lives in uncertain times. The class I am taking is offered through a church, Quest of Lancaster, Spring 2025. While most of the Quest classes are filmed and available 'on demand' [the first in the financial series on Municipal Bonds was not], you might wish to access the recordings if you would like a bit of a 'flight guide' to help you pilot these troubling times. We are, indeed, made for this flight! God Bless each of us on our quest and God Bless America! Happy Easter.
Thank you for this: 'attuned to the movement of the air' - full concentration now, hypervigilant.
I’m Canadian, for me it clicked during the George W Bush administration. I couldn’t believe it when he was re-elected. It was that administrations “ Weapons Of Mass Destruction “ criminally and massively destructive war for oil ploy…and the way in spite of all the evidence to the contrary, that administration invaded Iraq. It finished my faith in US governance.
It’s clear to me now that our governing systems are not built to deal with long term threats like climate change… I believe we need to create an entirely new civilization and system of governance. I have a lot of difficulty imagining how, or even if we can get there from here…
We are indeed "Hospicing Modernity",--- and what do we envision for the new era of consciousness, something better or do we evolve in a darker direction?