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    Thread: Interesting article about genx vs millennials
Post: Interesting article about genx vs millennials

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/techn...gen-x.html "Tech layoffs shock young workers...the older people? Not so much" Many interviews with GenXers accustomed to layoffs and Millennials surprised at...
erdna3 Generation X 4 2,197 01-27-2023, 10:15 AM
    Thread: Genz getting worse at technology use
Post: Genz getting worse at technology use

Saw several twitter threads about this...interestingly, people agreed that the shift started in the 03-05 birth range, so where S+H draw the line.  Supports the idea that the Heroes endow technology ...
erdna3 Homeland Generation/New Adaptive Generation 4 2,456 01-18-2023, 03:18 PM
    Thread: Why is the 2T -> 3T transition dated around 1984?
Post: RE: Why is the 2T -> 3T transition dated around 19...

That makes sense...though wasn't 3T supposed to be "personally enjoyable" on a smaller scale, the issues being more with institutions and social-fabric?
erdna3 Turnings 3 703 12-18-2022, 03:19 PM
    Thread: Is it possible to have differently-timed saecula on a smaller scale?
Post: Is it possible to have differently-timed saecula o...

For example, take New York City. We may be in crisis society-wide (since 2008? 2020? 2001?) but that regional ecosystem had a much crazier period not too long ago: maybe from about "Ford to City: Drop...
erdna3 General Discussion 2 822 12-18-2022, 02:09 PM
    Thread: Why is the 2T -> 3T transition dated around 1984?
Post: Why is the 2T -> 3T transition dated around 1984?

I wasn't around for this transition so bear with me. The theoretical framing is that the 2nd turning is when supply of societal order is high and demand is low...when the supply flips to being low al...
erdna3 Turnings 3 703 12-18-2022, 01:39 PM
    Thread: Sports events that capture and represents each turning
Post: RE: Sports events that capture and represents each...

Baseball steroid era super 3T, very "carnival atmosphere"
erdna3 Entertainment and Media 9 1,790 12-14-2022, 02:47 PM
    Thread: "New York City to Involuntarily Remove Mentally Ill People From Streets"
Post: RE: "New York City to Involuntarily Remove Mentall...

(11-29-2022, 06:52 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: For their safety or our convenience? Mostly just made this post because it was a very concrete prediction from the T4T book, rounding up the homeless and reop...
erdna3 Turnings 4 897 11-30-2022, 01:32 PM
    Thread: [USA] What do you think the political landscape will look like in the new saeculum?
Post: RE: [USA] What do you think the political landscap...

(11-30-2022, 01:11 PM)sbarrera Wrote: (11-29-2022, 01:14 PM)erdna3 Wrote: Probably a more classic setup where you have a tax-and-spend faction and a small-government-plus-social-conservative one, ...
erdna3 The Future 26 6,969 11-30-2022, 01:30 PM
    Thread: "New York City to Involuntarily Remove Mentally Ill People From Streets"
Post: "New York City to Involuntarily Remove Mentally Il...

They predicted that this would happen near the beginning of 4T in the book. now it's happening: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/nyreg...stody.html
erdna3 Turnings 4 897 11-29-2022, 05:25 PM
    Thread: [USA] What do you think the political landscape will look like in the new saeculum?
Post: RE: [USA] What do you think the political landscap...

Probably a more classic setup where you have a tax-and-spend faction and a small-government-plus-social-conservative one, with fewer symbolic labyrinths. We already saw symbolic-labyrinth candidates u...
erdna3 The Future 26 6,969 11-29-2022, 01:14 PM