I'm a Boomer, so you may have to try to see from my perspective on this. 1960 does not seem that far away to me. John Kennedy seemed to usher in a new "present age." We can talk about him today and it is not as if it is ancient history. Hollywood seemed to change in that year. One particular movie sticks in my mind, it was STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET with Kirk Douglas and Kim Novak. It dealt with suburbanites and marital infidelity. I have not seen this movie in, I'm sure, 40 years or more, but one scene still lingers. Kirk Douglas was washing his car in his driveway and a neighbor gave him a critical look because it was on a Sunday. The house was of a modern architecture that that developed around that time and we still think of this type of house as an embryo of today's modern housing. He drove around in, what might have been a 1960 Thunderbird.
Elvis may have been around a few years but pop music that we still hear on the oldies channels was coming into its own, and even Elvis changed dramatically after coming out of the army. Interestingly, the previous 48years seems to me to be unified in a similar way. The Titanic sunk in that year (1912) and world wars followed, a depression was experienced. It ended with the development of atomic bombs and a cold war.
Another 48 years backwards and the Civil War was ending. The goal and methods of the universities were changing, Ministers were not sought after to head institutions of higher learning. Curriculums were changing. Another 48 years and the Napoleonic Age was coming to and end. I can go on but I'm not trying to present a firm theory.
I'm sure there are many holes in my examples here. What I'm concerned with is that we do seen to be coming to the end of what we grew up with. Something new along these lines seems to be coming and it does not seem to be good. Then again, maybe everyone at the end of these ages probably would say the same thing. This financial crisis appears to be far more than most government leaders let on. A struggle over total globalization is on right now. I don't mean just free markets that open up trade all over the world but a whole new financial creation where everyone must acknowledge that we are all chained to one another.
As I mentioned in a previous blog, it is hard to argue with the logic of those that believe that a "One World Government" is the only remedy for the threat of small nations, even small groups, using nuclear or biological weapons. There are two perspectives of looking at this "change" that I see, one discouraging, and the other with a perpetual hope. Of the former, change is coming. We can't cling to a period, history lays this fact out before us. On the latter, The mindset of the Christian ialways remains the same....where we have to deal with our own fallen nature and sin, and with a world that will, at times, let us go only so far in proclaiming how only the imputed (not infused) righteousness of Jesus Christ can cover our sin.
Alan Greenspan has been a believer in the "Objectivism" of Ayn Rand where man's happiness and productiveness through reason should be his goal. Greenspan, commenting on the catastrophic sequence of events in the financial crisis said "Everyone has (an ideology)-to exist, you need an ideology. The question is is whether it is accurate or not," with astonishing insight and humility he continued "Yes, I found a flaw...I've been very distressed by that fact." What he hit on that he does not realize is that humanity itself is fallen....and that philosophies that rely solely on the logic and reason of man that is presumed to be fundamentally good are doomed to disaster.
Elvis may have been around a few years but pop music that we still hear on the oldies channels was coming into its own, and even Elvis changed dramatically after coming out of the army. Interestingly, the previous 48years seems to me to be unified in a similar way. The Titanic sunk in that year (1912) and world wars followed, a depression was experienced. It ended with the development of atomic bombs and a cold war.
Another 48 years backwards and the Civil War was ending. The goal and methods of the universities were changing, Ministers were not sought after to head institutions of higher learning. Curriculums were changing. Another 48 years and the Napoleonic Age was coming to and end. I can go on but I'm not trying to present a firm theory.
I'm sure there are many holes in my examples here. What I'm concerned with is that we do seen to be coming to the end of what we grew up with. Something new along these lines seems to be coming and it does not seem to be good. Then again, maybe everyone at the end of these ages probably would say the same thing. This financial crisis appears to be far more than most government leaders let on. A struggle over total globalization is on right now. I don't mean just free markets that open up trade all over the world but a whole new financial creation where everyone must acknowledge that we are all chained to one another.
As I mentioned in a previous blog, it is hard to argue with the logic of those that believe that a "One World Government" is the only remedy for the threat of small nations, even small groups, using nuclear or biological weapons. There are two perspectives of looking at this "change" that I see, one discouraging, and the other with a perpetual hope. Of the former, change is coming. We can't cling to a period, history lays this fact out before us. On the latter, The mindset of the Christian ialways remains the same....where we have to deal with our own fallen nature and sin, and with a world that will, at times, let us go only so far in proclaiming how only the imputed (not infused) righteousness of Jesus Christ can cover our sin.
Alan Greenspan has been a believer in the "Objectivism" of Ayn Rand where man's happiness and productiveness through reason should be his goal. Greenspan, commenting on the catastrophic sequence of events in the financial crisis said "Everyone has (an ideology)-to exist, you need an ideology. The question is is whether it is accurate or not," with astonishing insight and humility he continued "Yes, I found a flaw...I've been very distressed by that fact." What he hit on that he does not realize is that humanity itself is fallen....and that philosophies that rely solely on the logic and reason of man that is presumed to be fundamentally good are doomed to disaster.
