Dinosaurs are the modern interpretation of the fossil remnants of dragons and other prehistoric giant beasts that did not survive the Great Flood.
Imo, judging from the Book of Enoch, my sincere guess is that the Nephilim were implicated in all manner of bizarre genetic manipulations (among other things); which resulted in the sort of place that the Almighty God felt fully justified in flooding completely for months and wiping it all out.
Learning about Localism is really only a little bit of abstract theory, and a lot of learning practically about how to live meaningfully and productively with your literal neighbors in your specific geographical area. Putting down roots, getting involved in the community, and becoming indispensible - that sort of thing.
Sometimes what gets missed is the ability to discern and resist outside threats - like datacenters or other NIMBYs. But those are again rather particular to your own near region.
CHURN is a good word for it. You’re spot-on the entire scope-and-span of human history is perfectly coherent with the notion of an Almighty God creating ideal conditions for billions of free-willed agents to make up their own minds whether to love the Creature or the Creator 🙏🏻
They did; as did most of Europe’s monarchs. It is very much cyclical.
But the American Republic didn’t fare much better - and itself fell to the “80 Year Curse” by the time of the American Civil War.
Republics are a lamentable compromise, which start out pretty good - but end up selling out the great-grandkids. Hard Localism would undoubtedly be better 😄
The Parasite knew quite well they wouldn’t get too far in the American milieu while anchored to Traditional Monarchy; Thomas Jefferson and his “Life and Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth” is emblematic of precisely the sort of project they were going for — cut out anything/everything suggestive of Divine/Supernatural provenance in the Gospel narrative - turning the Son of God into a good-natured-yet-rebellious carpenter with a philosophical bent.