"DIVIDED WE STAND" - CNN Series - Starts Feb 14

Add a brief but accurate HISTORICAL CULTURAL BATTLE MAP of 1860 - 1865 and DOSSIER that includes KuKluxKlan, anti-immigration, and more to enhance your viewing.

Only $2.00 https://timelinewonk.blogspot.com/p/186.html

THE CULTURE WAR LEADING UP TO THE CAPITOL ATTACK

THIS EXCERPT IS FROM THE 1985-2004 DOSSIER

1995 – The Cult Of Violence, Vigilantes and Vengeance – Lt. Col. Dave Grossman – [After the Oklahoma City Bombing] “ if we look into the mirror provided by the television screen, the reflection we see is one of the nation regressing from a society of law into a society of violence, vigilantes, and vengeance."

LINK HERE TO THE BATTLE MAP AND DOSSIER 1985-2004

https://timelinewonk.blogspot.com/p/1985-2004.html

 Find this on the Right Hand Column

2005-2020 BATTLE MAP AND DOSSIER IS PROCESS

"THE COMMENTARIES ARE GREAT."

 "The commentaries are great.  I’m very glad you often quoted people on both sides of issues, rather making the commentaries all your own summaries of what they said – Molly Ivins, Angela Davis, Patrick Buchanan, Pat Robertson, etc.  While you have obviously done a great deal of work on this project, even more commentaries would be welcome." 

-Malcolm Bell, Author "The Attica Turkey Shoot"

"READING A COMPACT, NON-NARRATIVE HISTORY" - Malcolm Bell, author

    For me, this was reading a compact, non-narrative history.  The timelines reminded me of events I have read about and, since the 1930s, lived through.  They filled me in (in spite of their brevity) on interesting facts and corrected some of my misconceptions.  They and the commentaries evoke the temper of the times and give this reader a feel for the periods – as you say of the commentaries, they “give the reader a feeling-based sense of the era.”

The commentaries are great.  I’m very glad you often quoted people on both sides of issues, rather making the commentaries all your own summaries of what they said – Molly Ivins, Angela Davis, Patrick Buchanan, Pat Robertson, etc.  While you have obviously done a great deal of work on this project, even more commentaries would be welcome.

Malcolm Bell, author
THE ATTICA TURKEY SHOOT: Carnage, Cover-up and the Pursuit of Justice
https://www.amazon.com/Attica-Turkey-Shoot-Carnage-Cover-Up/dp/1510716149

SIMPLE, GENERATIONAL TIMELINES

This blog offers access to simple timelines and commentaries organized by generations from 1860 - 2004 and listed in the right column.  Here is the front page of the 1985 - 2004 timeline which is 31 pages long in total.

     The timelines are factual compilations of the history of positive and negative forces which have affected you, your family, your business, employees and colleagues. After all, we are individuals, but we live in the same time. 

Topics covered in the timelines include:
- technology
- economics
- religion
- race
- health care
- the environment
- politics
- weather
- alcohol and drugs
- wars
- family life
- attitudes
- many more

     These are the context of our lives and have played a significant role positively or negatively. The hope is that these simple timelines inform your writing and your research. They may result in a new insight, a little clarity, an answer to a niggling question from the past being answered - which will address de Toqueville's concern which he articulated below.
https://goo.gl/SP3PEv

FORCES GREATER THAN OURSELVES

Memoirs are based on our memories – positive and negative – of our efforts to harmonize ourselves and the more powerful systems of forces around us. And, these forces change over time and are the context for our biographies.

We live in a Sun/Earth system called the “Saros”. Nature - is nested within this larger, cosmic Saros.

When we are born, we are born into a place where geography affects our biography uniquely. The climate where we were born, the weather, the terrain, plants, animals all affect our lives.  Major storms of all sort can cause calamities.

We are also born as a member of a cultural system: a people, tribe or clan. The country we are born into have language, and sub-cultures based on religion or historical categories. Our family, however we define that, is a group, that exists within a cultural system. All of these are greater than the individual.

The relationship between our parents affects our family construct. And, finally, our own unique self is within all of these nests.

Starting from the left, each of these larger systems affects each system to its right, or we could say, each system affects the biography of each system.

Each system has sub-systems or agents which independently affect each system. For example, day/night rhythms affect different religious groups: Muslims and Jews mark their months starting with the new moon, other calendars use the Julian Calendar.

All of these components make our lives rich and complex.

Time is also a factor as things change. Timelines reflect the evolving social status which affects cultures, families, and ourselves.

EXOGENOUS SYSTEMS CHART:

7/7/2010

COSMOS	SAROS (NATURE)	CULTURAL	FAMILY	PARENT	BIOGRAPHY
Sun	Seasons	Nationalism	# children	Age	Physiology
Moon	Day / Night	Tribe / Clan	# parents	Education	Health
Planets	Weather	Family	Employment	Employment	Accidents
Constellations	Tides	Religion	Distance	Upbringing	Habits
Spirit	Environment	Economics	Child school	Economic	Exercise
	Climate	Technology	Sleep	Experiences	Psychology
	Zeitgerbers	Media	Meal time	Conflict	Age
	Biological time	Health Care	Nutrition		Travel
	Geography	Corporations	Family dynamics		Nutrition
	Temperature	Political: monarchy, democracy, oligarchy, etc.	Conflict		Sleep
	Air / atmospherics	Language
	Soil nutrient composition	Educational system
	Altitude	War / conflict (from outer)
	Food availability and type.	Resistance, rebellion, revolution (from inner)
	Water availability and quality.	Generational types and rhythms.
		Agriculture
		Calendar system
		Legal system
		Capacity to adapt (innovate)
		History

WHEN AMERICA WAS GREAT

TIMELINES REVEAL THE GREAT ERAS
     This is an era that social historians Strauss and Howe call "THE GREAT UNRAVELING".  We can see that the recent worldwide politics feels like one of "unraveling" of many once accepted political policies, cultural mores, economic relationships, religious morals and social forms which were built up over time as cultural responses to previous events which the timelines detail. 
     Perhaps these timelines will help us think backwards and imagine what will be unraveled? What cultural forces will be released is anyone's guess.
     Timelines  most relevant may be:
1985 - 2004 - Unraveling and "Cultural Warfare".
1964 - 1984 - Integration / voting rights, the Post-Vietnam era.
1947 - 1963 - The Post WWII, Soviet/Russia struggle, Kennedy assassination.
https://goo.gl/gqLtJZ