Ha ha, I did not mean millennials in the sense of people born after 1980, but millennials in the traditional sense of those who dream of the thousand years of peace described in the Bible.President Camacho wrote:A world without borders shouldn't be ascribed to 'millennials' in my opinion.
Millennialism in religion is the idea that the second coming of Jesus Christ will bring a paradigm shift to a world of peace and love. Anabaptists, Mennonites and also a range of conservative fundamentalists are millennial, although most millennial thinking is of the kooky rapture variety.
I like millennial thinking, but from a scientific pov of asking how human society can evolve to escape collapse.
It is ironic that those who came of age at the millennium are called millennial, since the old Christian 7000 year theory of time assumed that Jesus would come back to institute the thousand years of peace, ruling with the rod of iron and chaining Satan in the pit of fire, from 2000 to 3000 AD.
The idea of Jesus ruling the world would involve abolition of nation states and national borders in some views, at least those which don’t assume doomsday is about the end of the laws of physics.
With 40% of Americans believing young earth creationism which evolved together with the 7000 year theory of time, there is a very big hold that millennial thinking has in the American psyche and politics. Old fashioned millennial fundamentalists tend to be last trumpeters.
My personal view about the value of stability arose from watching the collapse of communism in the Warsaw Pact, alongside the retention of formal communism in China. Russia is a mess compared to China, and a big part of that is the chaos unleashed by Gorby in 1989.President Camacho wrote:Stability is good... depends on who you are and what your situation is.
This political decision by Deng to make stability the highest value is in my opinion the one key factor that delivered the millennium development goal of halving absolute poverty in the world. The policy of kill one and make a million tremble is harsh but effective, when the emperor has clear vision.
If China had been riven by political conflict and instability, it would not now be challenging the USA for world hegemony. I put stability up there with evidence and logic as the highest moral value.