Well, I was thinking to not veer too off topic and just flipped the roles for a second. If the demonic is its own ... Ring Cosmos, so to speak... then we are "the enemy" in the role of the Ring Chaos in that situation, and we got broken without a fight. And we were fooled into thinking we liked it!
I'm not familiar with the details of the fourth turning theory, so can't comment on that specifically, but I see your point that we keep having "here's the worst future imaginable" dangled in front of us and it distracts us from the actual changes already made present.
Part of me wonders if part of the answer is analog, luddite-ish, Amish-lite, 1400-1800s-level society lived in broad daylight. There's still room for religion-based deviance from the corporate-state...
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Date: 2021-01-20 07:43 pm (UTC)I'm not familiar with the details of the fourth turning theory, so can't comment on that specifically, but I see your point that we keep having "here's the worst future imaginable" dangled in front of us and it distracts us from the actual changes already made present.
Part of me wonders if part of the answer is analog, luddite-ish, Amish-lite, 1400-1800s-level society lived in broad daylight. There's still room for religion-based deviance from the corporate-state...