If the “menace” is waning … stuff in regard to the menace will wane as well … if the phase I labelled “unwind” is starting … stuff in regard to the “unwind” phase is starting … perhaps we are in “liminal space” … the “in between”.
Wendy … if I understand the main theme of your posts correctly … using the balloon metaphor … mankind is continuing to inflate the balloon … at some point the balloon will burst/explode.
I’m suggesting the balloon is approaching bursting point … if you take your fingers that are holding the air inside the balloon off suddenly the balloon will fly in an unusual pattern all over the room … the “unwind”.
Some may view US politics for the past year “unusual”.
Pandora … thanks for the post … seems you belong to the philosopher’s guild … those philosophers who spend an enormous amount of energy and time examining … ad infinitum … such a small piece of the pie.
BY JOHN BUNYAN
Who would true Valour see
Let him come hither;
One here will Constant be,
Come Wind, come Weather.
There’s no Discouragement,
Shall make him once Relent,
His first avow’d Intent,
To be a Pilgrim.
Who so beset him round,
With dismal Storys,
Do but themselves Confound;
His Strength the more is.
No Lyon can him fright,
He’l with a Gyant Fight,
But he will have a right,
To be a Pilgrim.
Hobgoblin, nor foul Fiend,
Can daunt his Spirit:
He knows, he at the end,
Shall Life Inherit.
Then Fancies fly away,
He’l fear not what men say,
He’l labour Night and Day,
To be a Pilgrim.