I first heard about The Great Resignation in mid August, and wrote about it in a report I wrote in early September. It's continuing. According to this PBS report above, over 25 million Americans have quit their jobs since January 2021. In a recession! (Which is technically a depression). WTF is going on? I have a pretty good idea. But I'm an amateur futurist, I've had a head start at all this.
I've been blogging about economic and work-related issues since mid-2017 (like this post from June 28, 2017). I saw a very serious economic downturn coming our way, even back then. But as an amateur futurist who was keeping an eye on some ultra long term cycles playing out, I saw more than just another recession coming, or even another "Great Recession."
Since late 1989 I've been watching a theory, a concept play out, called The Law of Social Cycle, by a mid-20th century thinker from India, named P.R. Sarkar. In late January 2020, before Covid-19 was close to hitting U.S. shores, I wrote a chapter in my 20 chapter online book/blog thing about this theory. In part, that theory, analyzed for the U.S. by economist Ravi Batra, predicted a major, long term, populist uprising in the United States. My 12th chapter in this online book/blog, written 20 months ago, in the last paragraph says, "...but the Laborer class are still rising, and will force massive change at some point. This is not even close to over." That's at the end of my explanation, of my understanding, of P.R. Sarkar's Law of Social Cycle. You can read that chapter (or skip to the last paragraph) here.
After reading about this theory in late 1989, and watching much of what Batra predicted play out in the early 1990's, I believed that a MAJOR populist uprising, a wide scale "worker's revolt," of some type, would happen in the U.S. years in the future. I believe it started with the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011, and rose up again in the support for both populist candidates, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, on the Left and the Right, in the 2016 election.
But I knew there was more to come. Life for average American workers has been going downhill for 30-40 years. It has simply been getting harder and harder to make a good living, and raise a family well. A time of reckoning was coming.
And that is just one part of the major changes I saw coming, according to the thinking of Alvin and Heidi Toffler (last two blog posts), P.R. Sarkar (this post), and also Richard Florida (more on his Creative Class concept, in future posts).
In late 2019, I tagged this decade as The Tumultuous 2020's. There are a whole lot of reasons why, and that's what this blog is for. Simply put, there are all kinds of societal changes that need to take place, on virtually every level, for human society to move forward. The major cycles and concepts I've watched for years, even decades, all started converging as we headed into the 2020's. It's like they were all heading for major transitions, major inflection points, at the same time. That made me think, "Oh shit."
There's a lot going on, and it's NOT the crazy conspiracy stuff many people are hearing from bad media and worse websites and stupid friends. We have all kinds of relatively new technology that makes whole new lifestyles possible, and society itself needs to catch up, and integrate all this technology into lifestyles that work for real humans. In a sense, we all need to upgrade the world to fit the tech and lifestyles and other issues (economic, climate, social injustice, political, etc) going on in our world.
It seems the time has come to remodel... the whole freakin' world. Really.
There's a lot more to come. I've been blogging about this big group of inter-related ideas for four years now. Now that what I've seen coming is partly visible to most people, I've got a lot to say on where we're at as human society, and where we're headed. Then you can decided what, if any, of my ideas, make sense in your lives. Then it's time to figure out how we all live in today's world in a more functional way.
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