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Dancers of the old south mansion
Dancers
of the old south mansion
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High performance at arbitrary social behaviors was required, yet those behaviors contradicted biblical tradition that anchored the culture. While the mansion decayed in the damp southern air, too expensive to rebuild, the burgeoning young population outnumbered economic opportunity. Southern culture was stuck in agrarian rituals that suppressed change. Young people were virile and angry that their way of life was ending, yet powerless to forge a new direction without violence. Conflicting social environments caused the US civil war <> and causes all wars. Elections are supposed to prevent this, but lost money will form social patterns to preserve wealth that won't release its grip without force.
In 2010 America, the same stressors are in action again. Rituals holding culture together such as education, insurance, copyright and home ownership have caused diminished economic opportunity. Only top-talent big money can play the game. Young people have no ownership. They are angry about arbitrary rituals suppressing change. They don't want endless bills and demeaning jobs. Another American Civil War is inevitable. It will dissolve into racial conflict dividing the union between North and South. With fresh opportunity for change, the whole world will erupt in war and Jews will be forced into the sea once again. The forest fire will clear the land for new growth. The old will die, the young will move on and history will record another chapter forgotten a millennia from now.
By the next millennia, all the dinosaur bones will be dug up and people will not believe they came from the ground. Instead they will believe the dusty rocks gathered in piles came from our technology and say that we made artificial things. Eventually all we know and cherish will disappear into layers of earth. Every rock in the dirt has a history back to the beginning of time.