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It is interesting to see more and more Substack writers referring to the Strauss & Howe book THE 4TH TURNING.

It is nice that less people believe we are heading toward the Apocalypse; but disturbing to see that so many are reconciled to the fact that the world we have known for nearly a century is about to be turned on its head.

I suppose we have reached the equivalent of 4th-stage cancer and we've already learned to accept it.

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Ray writes about saving the US. I don't know if I can bring anything to this discussion other than say to smile at children and games in old age is wise. Whatever rules us is not the US government. We are selfs.. We make and unmake our way in the world outside our door but it can go away, it did during Covid. In China it still is. After hearing the news of the Soviet invasion of Poland on 17 September 1939, Witkacy committed suicide on 18 September by taking a drug overdose and trying to slit his wrists. He convinced Czesława to attempt suicide with him by consuming Luminal, but she survived.

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Is the "Say Nothing" idea for when under interrogation or because of the spies.

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