21st Century Waves

Technology booms and human expansion into the cosmos

Question:

Could we be in a critical state right now?  A critical state is defined as:

model of transformative, twice-per-century Maslow Windows that are triggered by “critical states” of the complex global economic system due to self-organization over decades. The last one was in the 1960s — which featured the Apollo Moon program — but Maslow Windows can be traced back 200+ years to Lewis and Clark.

We just had a shut down drama which might have been evidence of such a state.

The website discussed another as we almost blundered into---- a war over Syria.

Another way of looking at the shut down drama.  Perhaps it was for the best that it ended.  The crisis is over for now, at least.

Notice in the quote above how it meshes perfectly with my theory that we hit a high water mark in 1968.

A war may spoil the opening of another Maslow Window which would consist of rapid advances in technology and living standards.