Stimulating idea, JMG. With respect to the second influence, it is certainly worth exploring, as all the ordinary, worldly explanations seem to fall slightly short and even mundane astrology does not seem to be able to reveal the depths of the weirdness.
When postulating phenomena such as other solar-system-planes messing around with ours, I believe that it is important to make sure that the phenomena that we observe are, more or less, global in reach. Too often I have come across sweeping statements about global changes in human behaviour when in reality the explanation fits only a small portion of humanity (usually the West). I am not saying that your tentative explanation wears cultural or geographic blinders – for I believe that what you have described have been two fairly global phenomena – but I am saying that we always have to be watchful of slipping into the all-too-common assumption that because ‘we’ are experiencing something, ‘the whole world’ is, too. I have observed that barring a couple of brief ugly episodes, Indian society has been mostly sane for the past few years.
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Date: 2023-04-01 04:05 am (UTC)When postulating phenomena such as other solar-system-planes messing around with ours, I believe that it is important to make sure that the phenomena that we observe are, more or less, global in reach. Too often I have come across sweeping statements about global changes in human behaviour when in reality the explanation fits only a small portion of humanity (usually the West). I am not saying that your tentative explanation wears cultural or geographic blinders – for I believe that what you have described have been two fairly global phenomena – but I am saying that we always have to be watchful of slipping into the all-too-common assumption that because ‘we’ are experiencing something, ‘the whole world’ is, too. I have observed that barring a couple of brief ugly episodes, Indian society has been mostly sane for the past few years.
Ron M