03-15-2022, 10:04 AM
Personally, I think I'll probably drop off the face of the earth metaphorically. Eras of good feeling and conformity are not my scene. My style of patriotism is more one of "I'm there when you need me", coming in to solve problems, talk about policy or help people make strategic plans. These are still behaviors I will display from time to time, especially to help friends or immediate neighbors, but the "life is a team sport" attitude of fellow Civics just doesn't resonate with me as anything but an emergency measure to deal with urgent problems. My experience with people in general is that they have very short historical memories, and many will casually forget things they did during the 4T that revealed their true colors. In the case of my own age cohort (Civics), most will not realize that it was not their specific behavior that pushed me away, but their more generalized temperament of peer pressure, conformity and willingness to ruthlessly police ill-thought-out rules. These are the kinds of things that make me thing the 1T will be a little bit like those corny pep rallies I always hated in high school, along with greater calls for enforced "good behavior", which, unlike during a 4T, will be of little practical utility (you need people to follow more rules in a 4T. the same is not needed in a 1T).
When times are good, I think I'll go back to mostly being my old, individualistic self, taking some time to have a little "personal 3T" which I wasn't able to fully appreciate in childhood on account of less money and independence: travel, good food, nice clothes, lots of reading all manner of subjects and diving deeper into fiction and the arts. By nature, I'm neither a hedonistic personality, nor chronic stimulation seeker, but tbh....I'm tired of having to give so much of a shit about society. I want to use that time to focus on myself, flex my freedom muscles and demand the best out of life. That's not to say I don't have some Civic "builder" tendencies, but they will mostly manifest themselves via personal rather than public or social projects.
After a few years of this, I'll probably settle into more of a mentor role, perhaps adopting a child and/or finding promising young pupils to council. With my spare money, I will have a handful of charities and projects I wish to contribute to, but, with everything else in my like, that will be on my term's, not the rest of society's.
When times are good, I think I'll go back to mostly being my old, individualistic self, taking some time to have a little "personal 3T" which I wasn't able to fully appreciate in childhood on account of less money and independence: travel, good food, nice clothes, lots of reading all manner of subjects and diving deeper into fiction and the arts. By nature, I'm neither a hedonistic personality, nor chronic stimulation seeker, but tbh....I'm tired of having to give so much of a shit about society. I want to use that time to focus on myself, flex my freedom muscles and demand the best out of life. That's not to say I don't have some Civic "builder" tendencies, but they will mostly manifest themselves via personal rather than public or social projects.
After a few years of this, I'll probably settle into more of a mentor role, perhaps adopting a child and/or finding promising young pupils to council. With my spare money, I will have a handful of charities and projects I wish to contribute to, but, with everything else in my like, that will be on my term's, not the rest of society's.
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