What will happen if someone lives by 3T values in the 1T?

[Eric the Green]

(10-14-2016, 03:33 PM)disasterzone Wrote:

Quote:In my own experience and recollection, most of the GI Generation members did not think like Beats or hippies or other non-conformists until the time of the Beats or later in the 2T. There were pioneers from older generations quietly doing work which would contribute to the Awakening later, such as Hoffman who invented LSD, and psychologists like Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow and philosophers like Alan Watts. Many GIs, especially younger ones, experienced the Awakening when it came around 1966, just as younger folks did, and changed their lives because of it. Others hung on to the old ways and defended them against their Boomer children.

I know most didn't, but how did the ones who did cope during the era? As in people severely marginalized and on the sidelines because they didn't think like the majority or people who thought the society oppressed them. Did they drink a lot to cope or take lots of prescription drugs? I heard a lot of people like that had to constantly numb themselves during the era.

I would expect those who were ahead of the curve in the 1T were exceptional folks, who thought outside the box and were ready to question convention. I think they were usually healthy people who didn't have to depend on addictions at all. The era itself was numbing, but most people did not even know they were being numbed down, as it were. They just conformed.

But some of these folks, who were conforming, and not questioning or pioneering, were the ones who had problems. Death of a Salesman types, men in the gray flannel suits keeping up with the Joneses. Most of them repressed their anxieties and feelings of emptiness, as many of them still do. I don't know if alcoholism rates were higher than in other turnings; maybe not. The guys often killed themselves with smoking though. There were certainly repressed abuses within families. People who were different were repressed too. Most people didn't even have a concept of these differences, that are so openly discussed today in a "politically correct" way. The victims suffered, usually silently; sometimes just bullied and teased. They mostly stayed quiet and just repressed their feelings, and went along as best they could. To compensate for all this superficiality and repression, there was also more of a sense of belonging then; not in any intimate or fulfilling way, but joining a club or a church or being taken care of at work kept people from feeling too isolated or left out. Advancing materially substituted for deeper fulfillment, at least for those who were white guys. "Guys like us we had it made; those were the days!" Some good movies to go to as well, and some TV shows worth watching. And at the end of the 1T, an increasing sense of futurism and humanitarian concern was felt that people could identify with and even participate in. Those who had been bullied began to come out.