{Fruitfulness and Decay}**[27th October 1990]

[Redbook8:69][19901027:2310]{Fruitfulness and Decay}**[27th October 1990]

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In Economics, interpretation of cycles works best if the O[uter] C[ircle] left semicircle is seen as a period of increasing apparent prosperity disguising increasing expansionist overheating, fragmentation and breakdown.

In my own life, the period up to age 32 – ie [up to] c1983 – was marked by increasing apparent prosperity disguising increasing personal-spiritual unhappiness. However, from 1983 to c1986 (age c35) the prosperity became almost notional – the line between existence and non-existence being invisibly thin – and the pace increasingly frantic; and from 1986 onwards, if you exclude the notional ‘value’ of our house, our material standard of living has definitely declined. (Looking back, I suppose you could trace the beginnings of material increase to some time around [age] 16 or thereabouts – I’m not sure.)

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Roll on, age 48!

*ref [[Redbook8:40][19901020:0835]{The Integrated Cycle}[20th October 1990]&f,] {40} (above)

**{(The point of this was, I think, to be that (as in the case of Autumn) apparent (and actual) fruitfulness may be intimately linked with underlying decay)}***

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***This fruitfulness at such a late stage being unexpected given the association of C with spiritual wealth and material poverty – but that is, of course, the choice which C brings: the Crisis. <901028>

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