(11-05-2016, 11:20 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(11-05-2016, 10:19 PM)Galen Wrote:(11-05-2016, 09:50 PM)taramarie Wrote: Hmm well I dunno tbh. I hardly know anything of the missionaries except I hear they were far more grounded and stern than boomers which sounds more like kiwi boomers. Ours knew what needed to be patched up and worked with what could be patched up..for example relations with the maori, women's rights and the environment as well as teaching the young that these things are the norm in culture now. I was one of the wee ones experiencing that type of teaching learning European/kiwi culture and Maori too and both languages to build an understanding between the two. Some boomers in America stun me with how strong their unrealistic ideology is and some are so angry about the fact they cannot put that ideology into society. The anger is shocking. I do not know tbh also about how boomers thinks about spiritualism. Personally I would rather hear them out on what it means to them individually. I think they may have just felt stifled in a culture that was not theirs. I am of the opinion as long as it was mutual meh have at it. I do not support non consensual sexual advances.
It takes time and experience to get a feel for an era from the historical record. It is worth the effort. What you get in school just isn't going to be enough.
The New Age movement are basically made up of people who are variations of Eric the Obtuse. That is pretty much what the spiritualism of the sixties evolved into and it is pretty empty.
That anger is pretty typical but is getting worse. Probably because they are reaching the end of their lives.
And again, anyone who generalizes about all Boomers is going to miss the point. They don't get it. The Red Boomers and Blue Boomers are very much different, especially in how they accept diversity. This is also hardly unique to the Boomers, you can see it in the other generations as well. One would like to think that the notion that America is a white christian nation is unique to the Ku Klux Klan, but it isn't. It's a common part of the red perspective. It's the difference between "If I'm right, and it is beyond question that I'm right, then everyone who disagrees is wrong" and "Let's all do our own thing." There is a theme, visible in Trump's message, that everyone has their place, and the place of the white christian males is on top. This is an old element of America, but not part of the values of everyone in America.
There is very little difference in Red or Blue Boomers, they only differ in the goals they choose to pursue. With Boomers it is always: I am right and everyone else is wrong. Don't have much use for either of them.
I was speaking of a very specific form of spiritualism. The America of the nineteenth and early twentieth century was very much a Christian nation. As for what Trump is, she can look up his speeches on Youtube and work that out for herself.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises