The symptoms are definitely there overall. There's plenty of weakness to go around. Yeah, just have to ride through it at this point. I'm not predisposed to panic at all, so I'll just keep doing what I've done my whole life, push forward and try to get smarter, tougher, and better along the way. I don't take the assertion that I'm weak personally if I came off like that. I don't care if someone thinks I'm weak anyway, it's just like intelligence. If they boast they are strong/smart, in reality they are weak/stupid.

I think I struggle more with that cycle as trying to apply it to history. Sure, there's places it fits, but it's often presented as the be-all-end-all that this is how life works and that's that. If anything the time relative to each period is stretches in and out like an accordion. Sometimes you have hundreds of years of weakness in serfdom, but others you have less than a decade.