pilgrim-seeker_tom wrote:Begs the question:
Are we on the threshold of yet another reversion of extremes?
If American politics keeps going in the direction it's going, then most likely; but it would spark a fire in political philosophy only... and even then, maybe only incite a reversion back to an older philosophy.
pilgrim-seeker_tom wrote:If so ... Gib ... would you prefer to carry the torch in the vanguard Hell no!or report from the rear?
I don't think I'd want to report from the rear either. I'd want to sit on the sidelines and watch (assuming it's entertaining).
Now if society was somehow all of a sudden inundated with psychedelic experiences or altered states of consciousness--something like the 60's for example--then I could offer a philosophy that would prove quite useful.