4th Turning or Just the Rise of the Angry Toddler?

Rant time!

I recently finished a book called "Outlaw Ocean", which dealt with the crazy crap that goes on at sea outside of the 200 mile limit of any sovereign nation. It's not pretty. In one chapter, the government of a SE Asian country finally cracks down on a business that supplies what amounts to slaves to a fishing fleet, while styling itself a "staffing agency". The secretary, who works the front desk of the office in the city where the work force is press-ganged, is arrested and goes to jail, while the actual owners and operators of the company sit comfy in Hong Kong or elsewhere. It solves nothing and puts that woman in a prison camp indefinitely.

The point of the above illustration is that I think it applies to the riots, raids, and vandalism going on in the western world right now. The people on the front lines of this fomentation, the ones currently in the news and on a variety of "wanted" posters, are being used by agitators who are happy to stand back and let the unwashed suffer the consequences of their long-form divisive agendas. We have whole segments of society ripe to be manipulated like this. People with dubious education, stunted maturity, and demostrable lack of impulse control. These are not the kinds of people who should be driving cultural change like angry toddlers who throw all their toys out the window because mummy and daddy expected them to eat their dinner before having dessert.

Complacency of the voting population, plus Marxist dogma fed to functionally illiterate students at all levels of education, has contributed to this mess, I believe. If you don’t believe the current output of any college-level humanities department are rife with ignorant drones, just look at the idiocy aimed by them at, say, rural (agricultural) communities and non-city dwelling people in general. “People in rural areas are evil and make bad life choices!” they scream. Everybody’s entitled to their opinion, but where do you think your food comes from, hot shot? Where is your electricity coming from? Your water? Is there a magical, high-volume spring at the center of every urban area? Does the city have a giant rain catchment system that feeds your millions of little apartments? How will Los Angeles, say, fare if those “stupid rural areas” decide they’re tired of sending most of their water to the filthy city instead watering their crops?

I’m rambling. Done for now.