(02-14-2017, 05:58 PM)TeacherinExile Wrote:(02-14-2017, 05:31 PM)Odin Wrote: Bannon's problem is that while he is smart, he's not quite as clever as he thinks he is. If he is aware of our online community and read the old forums he obviously missed all the criticisms a lot of us have had about S&H's socially conservative biases, for example. If Bannon thinks Millennials are going to willingly fight and die in a Christian holy war he is going to be sorely mistaken.
If the war is characterized as a "Crusade" or "Christian Holy War," you're probably right, especially if the pretext for war is flimsy. On the other hand, what if the US--in concert with our European allies--declared total war on "radical Islamic terrorists," in response to a mass-casualty attack perpetrated by jihadis using a weapon of mass destruction? Might not Millennials--here and abroad--be persuaded to enlist in a fight against Islamofascism, whose attacks finally reach a threshold that poses a genuine existential crisis?
The problem that I'm beginning to see with a war from a US standpoint is this: according to S&H theory, isn't any war supposed to be fought by Millennials? They range in age now (by my own generational markers) from 16 to 35. My point being that a large contingent of Millennials are getting too old to fight. (On its recruiting website, the U.S. Army reported an average enlistment age of just under 21 in 2012.) The Homelanders (which I date from the 911-attacks) are now turning 16, i.e., rapidly approaching the minimum age (17 or 18) for enlistment in the US military. And the Homelanders are supposed to be the Artists, not the soldiers, according to S&H theory.
Correct me if I'm wrong here.
-- it seemed to me that in Generations it's the younger Civics & older Artists who fight the wars. For instance Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence & spent the Revolution in France, while the younger Civics & Artist Compromisers like Andrew Jackson actually fought the war. I was watching a documentary about the Revolution & the narrator said that alot of teenage kids (ie, Compromisers) even girls like Betty Zane, fought in the Revolution. As for WW2, Interbellums were too old (in their 40s) the Greatest Generation was late wave GIs & 1st wave Silents. In Genrations S&H used Interbellum Robert Oppenheimer (who developed the Bomb) to represent the GIs, while the soldier/sailor in the field was a Silent. So yeah, if Bannon should be stupid enough to start a war, it'll come just in time for the last wave Millies & 1st wave Homies.
That said l think WW2 was an anomaly war. The 2 wars before it were civil wars (yeah the Revolution was actually a civil war, we just don't see it that way today) & considering all the civil unrest of the past few yrs, l can see it all escalating into a civil war. Throw in the secessionist talk....
Meanwhile l really don't see any foreign asshole on the horizon worth fighting WW3 over. Yes Eric, l know Assad is a pos bastard. He's also a pisspot. Not exactly the global threat Hitler was. Neither is that pisspot in Korea. Besides, if he gets overly annoying China will crush him like the spoiled gnat he is
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