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"Historic recurrence" quotations now at Wikiquote: "Historic recurrence"Nihil novi the quotations section in historic recurrence has now been removed. Havevyou any idea why, or by whom? How do I findbinfo on that?
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{{Help me} yesterday I posted items on the ideology page with references. Today they've been deleted without notifying me why. how can I improve as a contributor if I'm not told where I've gone wrong? Crawiki (talk) 14:57, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
Restored quotations on historic recurrence; how did I come by them? Through extensive reading during long spells of unemployment. 'If life hands you a lemon, make lemonade' - [1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crawiki (talk • contribs) 17:34, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
I also wrote a book with what I thought an original theory on historic recurrence. As yet unpublished. Then I heard about, and read, Ibn Khaldun, and realised he'd arrived at similar conclusions 640 years earlier. Brief summary is at www.terror-rhythm.blogspot.com if you're interested to know more. Even briefer summary at my first Wikipedia page, 'political midlife crisis', which I think is still awaiting review and approval.
As Orwell said, it's a global mental disorder. The infecting agents are lies deceits and fallacious reasoning of all kinds. Neither schools nor even politics students, in my experience, receive instruction in how to oppose such behaviour. Instead, force of habit prevails. I can access the wikipedia page I wrote on political midlife crisis by clicking on 'your sandbox page' for editing purposes but it seems no one else can google it. I don't know enough about computing to know why. I can share it to you via email, SMS etc if you want to look into it. USA 20 year intervals, all my own work alas. I'm 64, with careers in banking and teaching completed. a bit old for a new career in history. possibly not eligible for a doctorate bcos only got a 2.2. Unless you know of a shortcut...? I guess the banking taught me to see things in terms of systems. spent a long time studying accountancy, law, economics. history is the only social science lacking systems and classifications. Would appreciate if someone, somewhere in wikipedia would look into the 'political midlife crisis' article and see what's become of it. here is the full text; POLITICAL MIDLIFE CRISIS A political midlife crisis is a turning point in the fortunes of a governing entity, such as an empire, nation, faction, political party or an international alliance. These events occur after a prolonged golden age of optimism, economic progress, conquest or other success, and typically feature an attack on, or threats toward, a rival power. These attacks are vigorously opposed, end in stalemate or defeat. The political midlife crisis is then followed by an era of existential doubt, pessimism and hesitancy.
===HISTORY OF THE CONCEPT===
Joshua S Goldstein in his 1988 book, Long Cycles; Prosperity and War in the Modern Age was the first to write explicitly about this phenomenon. He cited four examples;
2) The German Empire (second Reich) and World War One. Germany under Bismarck was unified from 1864-71, then achieved forty years of rapid industrial, military and colonial expansion. In 1914 the Schlieffen Plan for conquering France in eight weeks was to be followed by the subjugation of Russia, leaving Germany the master of Mitteleuropa. France, UK and Russia then fought Germany to a standstill, defeat, a humiliating peace settlement, and the unstable, vacillating years of the Weimar Republic. 3) The USSR and the Cuban missile crisis. The USSR industrialised rapidly under Stalin and was a rival nuclear superpower to the US when in 1962, Khrushchev sent nuclear missiles to Cuba, 70 miles from Florida. President John F Kennedy blockaded the island and insisted the missiles be removed. 4) The USA and the Vietnam War. America, always ideologically opposed to communism, fought a losing battle against their agents, the Vietcong, from 1964-72. The belief that defeat would result in all of Indochina being Communised proved erroneous.[1] After Cuba and Vietnam, both superpowers softened their stance and sought cooperation and detente. In the 1960's two major ideas emerged; neoconservatism in the USA, and the Werner plan for European monetary union(EMU). Recent events such as 9/11, and the inconclusive Iraq and Afghan wars prompted professor Gary Weaver and Adam Mendelson to publish The American Midlife Crisis in 2008: they cite a survey of 109 historians, 99% of whom rated George W Bush a 'failure' as president, two-thirds rating him the 'worst ever'. Weaver and Mendelson write that the US was in its 'childhood' prior to 1898; adolescence from 1898-1945; young adulthood from 1945-91; adulthood from 1991-2001. The trauma of the Bush presidency caused the US to be 'seasoned with new strength, wisdom and maturity'. [2] The implication is that the US has another 250 years or so until it reaches senility. But the analysis appears slightly arbitrary and sanguine, given the many other US crises; the war of 1812, US-Mexican war, American Civil war, Indian wars, Great depression, Cuban missile crisis, and the Vietnam war; it is possible that the US has experienced not one, but several midlife crises, each affecting a faction rather than the whole nation. The Eurozone crisis has been called the EU midlife crisis in articles by Gideon Rachman, [3], Roland Benedikter, [4], and Natalie Nougayrede [5]. ===OTHER MIDLIFE CRISES IN HISTORY=== In War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy asks, 'What is the cause of this movement which took the French army all the way from Paris to Moscow, and then back to Paris? A system, a mysterious callous force...the unconscious swarm-life of mankind.'
The Stuart dynasty ruled England from 1603 to 1714, but in the middle of this episode, Charles I pushed his royal absolutism too far and was defeated, deposed and beheaded by the patliamentary forces of Oliver Cromwell and his New Model Army. The Amritsar massacre is recognized as a turning point in the British Raj in India, as it horrified world opinion and encouraged agitation for independence. ( see William Dalrymple, [7]). Likewise, the Sharpeville massacre of 1960 in Apartheid South Africa brought on a state of emergency, and drove the ANC underground in an armed struggle. [8] [9]) An article in The Economist ([10]was one of the first to recognize the nature of the Credit Crunch of 2007-8. ===THEORETICAL EXPLANATION===
Goldstein's concept begs the question; if polities have a midlife crisis, when does that life begin and end?
Islamic scholar Ibn Khaldun, in the Muqadimmah, 1377, set out a general theory of the rise and fall of regimes. First a ruthless conquerer with 'desert attitude' establishes a new dynasty. Over several years, Royal authority and 'asabiyyah', social cohesion, enable 'expansion to the limit'. But here a turning point is reached, just as in the life of an individual;
'When a man reaches forty, nature stops
growing for a while, then starts to
decline. The same is the case with
sedentary culture in civilisation.' [11]
The sedentary culture of the dynasty causes them to love luxury and pomp. The people are over-taxed, and acquire the 'habit of subservience' [12]; their rulers subvert property rights, and are weak, dishonest and divided. Finally, after three generations, equivalent to the lifespan of a man, the dynasty becomes 'senile and coercive ' [13] There may be a last 'brightly burning show of power' [14], but collapse is inevitable. A new dynasty takes over, and the cycle continues.
Ibn Khaldun said, 'this senility is a chronic disease that cannot be cured because it is something natural.' [15] That conclusion may have been sufficient for his time, but in our age of fervently opposed ideologies and WMD, a greater effort of understanding may be called for.
===QUOTATIONS===
'An earthly paradise is not made by this endless repetition, going round and round like a caged animal, making always the same thing. Take instead a step on the ascent of rational knowledge.'. -Jacob Bronowski
After Cuba and Vietnam, both superpowers softened their stance and sought cooperation and detente. In the 1960's two major ideas emerged; neoconservatism in the USA, and the Werner plan for European monetary union(EMU). Recent events such as 9/11, and the inconclusive Iraq and Afghan wars prompted professor Gary Weaver and Adam Mendelson to publish The American Midlife Crisis in 2008: they cite a survey of 109 historians, 99% of whom rated George W Bush a 'failure' as president, two-thirds rating him the 'worst ever'. Weaver and Mendelson write that the US was in its 'childhood' prior to 1898; adolescence from 1898-1945; young adulthood from 1945-91; adulthood from 1991-2001. The trauma of the Bush presidency caused the US to be 'seasoned with new strength, wisdom and maturity'. [2] The implication is that the US has another 250 years or so until it reaches senility. But the analysis appears slightly arbitrary and sanguine, given the many other US crises; the war of 1812, US-Mexican war, American Civil war, Indian wars, Great depression, Cuban missile crisis, and the Vietnam war; it is possible that the US has experienced not one, but several midlife crises, each affecting a faction rather than the whole nation. The Eurozone crisis has been called the EU midlife crisis in articles by Gideon Rachman, [3], Roland Benedikter, [4], and Natalie Nougayrede [5]. ===OTHER MIDLIFE CRISES IN HISTORY=== In War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy asks, 'What is the cause of this movement which took the French army all the way from Paris to Moscow, and then back to Paris? A system, a mysterious callous force...the unconscious swarm-life of mankind.' In France, the Napoleonic age begun by Napoleon I in 1799 was resumed by his nephew Napoleon III from 1848-70. The decision to invade Russia in 1812 was thus the midlife crisis of the Napoleonic era which began with Napoleon I in 1798, and ended with Napoleon III in 1870. It was supposed to secure a French-Russian alliance which would then conquer India, but ended in a rout, and the exile of Bonaparte; prompting Stanley Michalak to write that 'In 1812 napoleon failed the supreme test of power politics - knowing when to stop.' [6] The Stuart dynasty ruled England from 1603 to 1714, but in the middle of this episode, Charles I pushed his royal absolutism too far and was defeated, deposed and beheaded by the patliamentary forces of Oliver Cromwell and his New Model Army. The Amritsar massacre is recognized as a turning point in the British Raj in India, as it horrified world opinion and encouraged agitation for independence. ( see William Dalrymple, [7]). Likewise, the Sharpeville massacre of 1960 in Apartheid South Africa brought on a state of emergency, and drove the ANC underground in an armed struggle. [8] [9]) An article in The Economist ([10]was one of the first to recognize the nature of the Credit Crunch of 2007-8. ===THEORETICAL EXPLANATION=== Goldstein's concept begs the question; if polities have a midlife crisis, when does that life begin and end? Islamic scholar Ibn Khaldun, in the Muqadimmah, 1377, set out a general theory of the rise and fall of regimes. First a ruthless conquerer with 'desert attitude' establishes a new dynasty. Over several years, Royal authority and 'asabiyyah', social cohesion, enable 'expansion to the limit'. But here a turning point is reached, just as in the life of an individual;
The sedentary culture of the dynasty causes them to love luxury and pomp. The people are over-taxed, and acquire the 'habit of subservience' [12]; their rulers subvert property rights, and are weak, dishonest and divided. Finally, after three generations, equivalent to the lifespan of a man, the dynasty becomes 'senile and coercive ' [13] There may be a last 'brightly burning show of power' [14], but collapse is inevitable. A new dynasty takes over, and the cycle continues. Ibn Khaldun said, 'this senility is a chronic disease that cannot be cured because it is something natural.' [15] That conclusion may have been sufficient for his time, but in our age of fervently opposed ideologies and WMD, a greater effort of understanding may be called for. ===QUOTATIONS=== 'An earthly paradise is not made by this endless repetition, going round and round like a caged animal, making always the same thing. Take instead a step on the ascent of rational knowledge.'. -Jacob Bronowski 'The world is suffering from a kind of mental illness which must be diagnosed before it can be cured.'. -George Orwell. <ref> Essay, 19/11/1946 <.ref>
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Re: Animity Enmity ComplexHi, you can access my comments via searching the article up on Wikipedia or in your own user contributions. As for Amity-Enmity Complex, I have noted that the article has not be categorised. Thank you. Arbustum (talk) 13:50, 16 September 2017 (UTC) The article Political Midlife Crisis has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern: While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons. You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing Disambiguation link notification for October 2Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that you've added some links pointing to disambiguation pages. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.
It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 11:41, 2 October 2017 (UTC) Wikipedia requires sources. Articles are supposed to "neutrally summarize reliable sources", after all. Kleuske (talk) 13:18, 4 October 2017 (UTC) Nomination of Ideology in literature for deletion A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Ideology in literature is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted. The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ideology in literature until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Kleuske (talk) 13:23, 4 October 2017 (UTC) Two commentsThe "historic recurrence" section above is very hard to follow. Maybe WP:INDENT will help you and not adding spaces before a sentence on a new line will fix it. And don't forget to sign on all talk pages. Section headings in article should not have wikilinks. Doug Weller talk 16:00, 7 October 2017 (UTC) Disambiguation link notification for October 10Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Ideocracy, you added links pointing to the disambiguation pages Communist China and Tito (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject. It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 10:51, 10 October 2017 (UTC) Ideology in literatureI was too late today to try to make a "save" of your "Ideology in literature" article, which is now deleted. The deleters' principal objection to the article is that it was "original research", not backed by citations to publications on the subject, which was new to Wikipedia. I suggest that you review literature on the subject available on the internet, e.g., via Google Search, and cobble together an article from it; then place most of your earlier quotations into a related Wikiquote article. This will take a little effort, but your article may yet be salvageable. Some sample internet items that might be of interest:
You might best work the new article up in your user page's "sandbox", then transfer it into the general Wikipedia. In the event that Wikipedia does not permit reuse of the original title, "Ideology in literature", you could try a variant, e.g., "Ideology and literature". Good luck! If you give this a try, let me know and I'll look in from time to time to suggest technical editing solutions. Nihil novi (talk) 20:30, 11 October 2017 (UTC) Thanks for trying to save it. Nobody liked this stuff. Puzzled as to why people claimed it was improperly sourced. Plenty of references to independent published work IMHO. There are two similar, overlapping articles; Politics in fiction and Political fiction. Both focus almost exclusively on novels rather than theatre, and one is mostly a chronological list. Scope to combine and expand these? Also, the Ideology article makes no mention of literary influences. Crawiki (talk) 11:45, 13 October 2017 (UTC) The Great Wave (book)I've added some templates indicating needed improvements to The Great Wave (book). Most importantly, more third party sources should be discussed, such that this isn't merely showcasing the author's work and views. Per WP:NPOV, all significant views should be portrayed in proportion to their prominence in reliable, secondary sources. The premise of the book should be summarized but not given undue weight, while secondary sources provide necessary context, significance, and real-world impact of the subject. Cheers, --Animalparty! (talk) 20:04, 28 October 2017 (UTC) Replies to comments and indentationI think you are confused when I put a colon in double quotes you were not supposed to include the double quotes: A comment :A retort ::A clarification :::Another retort Gives: A comment
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Yes, but you need to show her publications are substantial. Please add ful publication information, including page count and ISBN. You can get numbers of libraries holding them from WorldCat. There should be published reviews of them--please add. They are the critical factor for meeting WP:PROF and WP:AUTHOR. DGG ( talk ) 18:14, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
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Obscenities not wanted Crawiki (talk) 21:26, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
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I'm sorry that my strong language upset you so much. Do you know what upsets me? People who pretend antisemitism doesn't exist, especially when everybody in the world sees that it does. You left a message at Talk:Antisemitism that I (mistakenly) believed to be sincere.[3] I replied in the same spirit, agreeing with you that anti-Zionism is not antisemitism.[4] Then I saw the butchery you had done to Antisemitism. The article included a sentence that we agree was off-topic, about holders of Israeli passports and visitors to Israel not being welcome in Saudi Arabia. But the source article, which was cited by name, was titled "Jews barred in Saudi tourist drive". The first sentence of the source article says, in bold letters, "Saudi Arabia is barring visits by Jews after launching a new visa scheme to try to attract more tourists." If you'll forgive the insult to the visually impaired, you would have to be blind to miss the fact that the source clearly says that Jews, not just Israelis, were barred from Saudi Arabia. You deleted the sentence, and the source, and replaced it with some ignorant pabulum you seem to have learned by reading History of the Jews in Saudi Arabia. You copied the source from there, too, but didn't include the URL. I believe you didn't even bother to read the source, because you misrepresented what the source says. It does not say, as you wrote, that "As of 2014, Saudi Arabia is reportedly open to Jews other than those of Israeli nationality." It says that in 2014, the Saudi website said that neither Jews nor Israelis were welcome. After an outcry, including harsh comments from US Representative Anthony Weiner, the reference to Jews was removed but not the reference to Israelis. An unnamed source told a Saudi newspaper that Jews were welcome, but not Israelis or Zionists. So you removed a useful source and misrepresented what a second source says, all so you could portray Saudi Arabia as more tolerant than it is. That's lying. It also makes me wonder what your agenda is. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 01:53, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
I do not 'pretend that anti-Semitism doesn't exist', and never have done. I lived in Israel for six months, I've seen the Auschwitz victims with their tattooed arms. Here, by way of example, is the text of a facebook post of mine from two years ago; '7 February 2016 at 17:21 Political Heroism (2) US journalist Varian Fry (1907-67) helped up to 4,000 Jews and other refugees, including cabinet ministers and prime ministers, to escape from Nazi-occupied France. He was awarded the Legion D'Honneur in 1967, and his achievements were turned onto a TV film in 2001, starring William Hurt.' You should note also the amendments I made two days ago to the 'Imperial Russia' section of the article. Please, follow the evidence, instead of leaping to conclusions. And stay calm; 'quiet, calm, deliberation disentangles every knot' (Harold Macmillan) You have here called me 'blind', a 'butcher' of the article, and a 'liar'. I can see no evidence for these allegations. I did read the article you refer to, dated 2014, from the Jerusalem Post. This information was more recent than the 2004 information which I deleted. I did not transfer the URL because my computer skills are limited; I have no idea what a URL is or how it works.Crawiki (talk) 12:41, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
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To reply, leave a comment here and prepend it with Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer. Citrivescence (talk) 01:18, 1 May 2019 (UTC) GT unbalanced articleHi. You're right about the GT article being too uncritical of her. Does she know about the other factors affecting climate change? I don't know, but the article does not address whether she does. Will poor countries be denied what rich countries have used to create their wealth? Any mention of this is stifled. Thank you for trying to balance this article. MartiniShaw (talk) 22:43, 15 November 2019 (UTC) Hello again. Some of the followers of Greta Thunberg often will, as you have said, argue black is white. I am aware of your interest in the Holocaust and Israel. I came across some news in relation to the Holocaust about Roger Hallam, a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion. I have added it to Hallam's bio in Wikipedia. The news is that in an interview, Hallam described the Holocaust as "just another fuckery in human history". He seems to be attempting to tell the Germans to forget about the Holocaust. The news is here on Die Zeit's English Language website. To give them credit, Extinction Rebellion Germany has distanced themselves from Hallam. I am expecting some fallout because of it, especially from Greta Thunberg's supporters, who often have a religious zeal. I would greatly appreciate it if could you follow this bio (of Hallam's). Thanks! MartiniShaw (talk) 15:14, 20 November 2019 (UTC) ArbCom 2019 election voter message
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