One can come up with numerous historical reasons to explain the onsets of the American Civil War and World War I. A necessary (if not sufficient) cause of both conflicts was that they occurred at the climaxes of rising price waves. Moreover, the counter culture of the late ‘60s came in the wake of the Dow Jones Index's crest of 1962, that is, at a point when average Americans began to bleakly imagine a world of resource scarcity and falling living standards. (Then came “Morning in America” and the “decade of greed,” as the social mood bottomed out and turned around, und so weiter...)
As Cracked points out, the drab color-schemes of the ‘70s (and early '90s) bespoke depression; the florescence of the ‘80s, euphoria.
Socionomics certainly has serious implications for our movement. As I discussed in my talk at the 2011 NPI Conference, the age of mass immigration, multiculturalism, globalization, cheap-and-available Thai food, etc. coincided with the largest credit bubble in world history. In the public’s imagination, increasing wealth and standards of living were associated (however irrationally) with the multi-cult. Needless to say, this psychic arrangement is breaking down, as the credit bubble implodes and standards of living collapse. The world of this past summer's London riots is replacing that of "Cool Britannia."
This end of the liberal paradigm is an opportunity. So come on, everyone, let’s all get decked out in Sepia!
