01-31-2017, 04:45 PM
(01-25-2017, 03:57 AM)Galen Wrote:(01-24-2017, 10:06 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: Provided the US comes out of the crisis intact, X, specifically people like Classic and Galen as represented by people like Cruz, are likely to do exactly the same thing that the Lost did - ensuring that the collective consensus that emerges from the regeneracy contains provisions safeguarding some degree of indiviidual rights, and providing a generation of caretaker leadership during the first turning.
Back when I was younger, I used to wonder where various personal liberty safeguards - like restrictions on use of IRS information, and allergies to requirements for universal ID - came from. They certainly didn't come from the politically active factions during the Consciousness Revolution.
As I watch how X develops, it becomes clearer and clearer that those safeguards came from the Lost. Reactives do their good deeds anonymously, without feeling a need to claim credit. While this cycle's safeguards will be different, I feel confident that they will be there.
Classic and Galen, let me pass along thanks from my as yet unborn Idealist grandchildren.
The Lost is also where the Presidential term limits came from. They did that as soon as FDR was planted in the ground and the war was over to start the amendment process. Hell, knowing them as I do they probably started planning it before the body was cold.
You are right about the Boomers and Silent generations. They never really did lose their faith in government, the god most of them truly worship.
It has been interesting watch Generation X become more like the Lost that I knew so long ago. One thing Nomad generations understand is how badly things can go wrong and we plan for it. The Boomers never did figure out that we often know what their next move is before they do.
Deranged right-wing spite for FDR is where the term limits come from.
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