04-10-2011, 11:56 PM
1932 - 1952 : night
1952 - 1971 : day
1971 - 1991 : night
1991 - 2011 : day
I agree with those above time periods however it could just be a coincidence that they corresponded to approximately 20 years. I think this would be more accurate:
1929 - 1959: night - great depression, ww2, conservatism in the U.S.
1960 - 1971: day - civil rights movement, counter culture, social democratic policies implemented in the U.S. and Canada
1972 - 1999: night - Watergate, Nixon censors news papers because of The Pentagon Papers, Nixon escalates the Vietnam War, beginning of the longterm downturn of the U.S. economy and quality of music, that oil thing, more greed in the 80s, capitalism gets even more unchecked after the fall of communism, the dot com bubble
2000 - ?: day - computers become more for personal fulfillment instead of just business tools and truly allow free information sharing with wikipedia and file-sharing, youtube the ultimate citizen media outlet
So there's no 20 year cycle as far as I can see, the "cycles" here range from 10 to 30 years. And I don't agree with the earlier examples at all.
1892 - 1912 : night? - this was when the old powers (monarchy) of Europe were crumbling and the (at the time democratic and progressive) U.S. was becoming the new superpower
1912 - 1932 : day? - WW1 and the great depression
The changes in the world are a function of peoples free will, not of cycles, astrology, or any other kind of determinism. If such things do exist they will at best be biases. Whether these changes were the results of individual politicians, the mass desires of a society, or both they came about because of free will and can not be attributed to predictable cycles of a fixed length.
1952 - 1971 : day
1971 - 1991 : night
1991 - 2011 : day
I agree with those above time periods however it could just be a coincidence that they corresponded to approximately 20 years. I think this would be more accurate:
1929 - 1959: night - great depression, ww2, conservatism in the U.S.
1960 - 1971: day - civil rights movement, counter culture, social democratic policies implemented in the U.S. and Canada
1972 - 1999: night - Watergate, Nixon censors news papers because of The Pentagon Papers, Nixon escalates the Vietnam War, beginning of the longterm downturn of the U.S. economy and quality of music, that oil thing, more greed in the 80s, capitalism gets even more unchecked after the fall of communism, the dot com bubble
2000 - ?: day - computers become more for personal fulfillment instead of just business tools and truly allow free information sharing with wikipedia and file-sharing, youtube the ultimate citizen media outlet
So there's no 20 year cycle as far as I can see, the "cycles" here range from 10 to 30 years. And I don't agree with the earlier examples at all.
1892 - 1912 : night? - this was when the old powers (monarchy) of Europe were crumbling and the (at the time democratic and progressive) U.S. was becoming the new superpower
1912 - 1932 : day? - WW1 and the great depression
The changes in the world are a function of peoples free will, not of cycles, astrology, or any other kind of determinism. If such things do exist they will at best be biases. Whether these changes were the results of individual politicians, the mass desires of a society, or both they came about because of free will and can not be attributed to predictable cycles of a fixed length.